Charles v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
June 2013
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Pacheco v. United States · Martin v. Frett
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when the instrumentality is being used by the servant for the purpose of advancing the employer's business or interests as distinguished from the private affairs of the servant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Rene
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.