Howard v. Caudill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The sheriff or collector may, with the approval of the county court, appoint one or more deputies, and take bond to himself for the faithful discharge of the duties of such deputies; but in all cases the sheriff shall be liable on his bond or bonds for any misconduct or fault of such deputies; any deputy may be removed at any time by the sheriff. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Casey v. Fidelity Casualty Co. of New York

2. ““While this statute makes a sheriff and his surety liable for certain acts of his deputies, it is not broad enough, we think, to make the deputy the agent of the sheriff in the sense that, when he maliciously kills another, the sheriff is 4 the person who committed the killing.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Casey v. Fidelity Casualty Co. of New York