Holder v. Haynes’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2010
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When [the driver] took the car out, and went for the purposes stated, he did not pretend to be acting for the Motor Company; nor, in fact, was he so acting. On the contrary, he was acting for himself, and not at all for the Motor Company. ... If that be so, the Motor Company is not liable for the result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“at the time and in respect to the very transaction out of which the injury arose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gillespie v. FORD
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.