Seismic Explorations, Inc. v. Dobray’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1976
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on G., C. & S. F. R'y Co. v. Levy · Universal Atlas Cement Co. v. Oswald · Cisco & N. E. Ry. Co. v. Texas Pipe Line Co. · Conrick v. Houston Civic Opera Ass'n
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agent is personally liable to third persons for his own misfeasance and positive wrong, but is not generally liable to them for his nonfeasance or omission of duty in course of his employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.