Slothower v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1956
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Ritchie v. Waller · Hollidge v. Duncan · Bank of Cal. v. W. Union Tel. Co. · Whimster v. Holmes · Kilroy v. President, Managers & Co. of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘' But it is insisted, that at the time of the collision, SAveeney was running the machine, the chauffeur, as Ave have seen, having permitted him to take charge of the steering wheel, he sitting beside him. At the trial the parties seemed to consider it was necessary to show that at the time of the collision, the chauffeur was driving. In view of the evidence we think that is a matter of no consequence or importance. When the chauffeur let Sweeny take the wheel, he remaining on the seat beside him, Sweeny’s acts, practically speaking, were his, and his act in turning the wheel over to Sweeny was the act of defendant, for it was done in the defendant’s service and while carrying out the'chauffeur’s employment. It was not the act of a servant abandoning his master’s service and turning it over to another. “ ‘In James v. Muehlebach, 34 Mo. App. 512, 518 , we said that, ‘If a servant in charge of Ms master’s carriage should take a stranger with him into the driver’s seat, hand Mm the reins and tell him to drive at a run and an injury happen in consequence of the speed, the master must answer for the damage, for the negligence was that of Ms servant. “ ‘But not so if the servant had quit the carriage and substituted the stranger in charge, generally, in his stead, without the knowledge of the master. For if an injury happen it is not the act of the servant for whom only is the master liable. In Booth v. Mister, 7 Carr. & P. 66, a servant in charge of his master’s cart gave over th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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