State v. Kolb’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 1980 · most notably Tuscaloosa County v. Shamblin (1936), Commonwealth ex rel. Orris v. Roberts (1958)
6 federal appellate · 22 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 Wyman v. Campbell · Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Lampley · Riggs v. Brewer · Raisler v. Oliver & Co. · George v. Skeates & 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“officer is not liable for the defaults and misfeasances of his clerks or assistants, even though they are appointed by him and are under his control, in the absence of allegation and proof that the officer was negligent or at fault in failing to exercise proper care and prudence in selecting the assistant or clerk, or in failing to properly supervise and superintend the acts and services of such employe(e) . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is true that we have statutes making certain officers liable as for the acts of their assistants and clerks; in such cases the special statute, of course, controls.”
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.