Wright v. McCord’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Steenhuis v. Holland (1927), Union Indemnity Co. v. Webster (1928)
1 federal appellate · 65 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 Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. George · Dwight Manufacturing Co. v. Holmes · Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. Abernathy · Alabama Consolidated Coal & Iron Co. v. Heald · Osborne v. Morgan
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is not his contract with the master that exposes the agent to liability to such third persons; it is the liability of the servant independent of that of the master, by reason of the servant's common-law obligation to so use that which he controls as not to injure another. The mere relation of agency does not exempt a person from liability for an injury to a third person proximately resulting from the neglect of duty of such agent for which he would otherwise be liable."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All ... releases... must have effect according to the intention of the parties thereto.”
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.