Van Cleave v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably Willis v. American National Life Insurance Co. (1956), Trachtenberg v. Castillo (1923)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 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 Joske v. Irvine · International & Great Northern Railway Co. v. Anderson · Grand Fraternity v. Melton · Reilly v. . Connable · Hill v. Staats
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The liability of the master in cases of this kind is to be determined by the application of the general principles of the law of master and servant. In such cases the burden is upon the plaintiff seeking to hold the master for an injury inflicted by the servant to ‘show that the servant did the wrong while acting within the scope of his employment,’ and the act (of driving the automobile in this instance) ‘must be done in furtherance of the master’s business and for the accomplishment of the object for which the servant is employed.’ ” I. & G. N. Ry. Co. v. Anderson, 82 Tex. 516 , 17 S. W. 1039 , 27 Am. St. Rep. 902 .”
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.