Wright Ex Rel. Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably Hunsucker v. High Point Bending & Chair Co. (1953), Cox v. Shaw (1965)
9 federal appellate · 34 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 Schubert v. August Schubert Wagon Co. · Dunlap v. Dunlap · Small Ex Rel. Balthis v. Morrison · Chase v. New Haven Waste Material Corporation · McLaurin v. McLaurin Furniture 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well-settled law that an employer who, by reason of his calling or the business in which he is engaged, owes special legal duties and obligations to the public or to those with whom there exists some contractual relation cannot shirk or evade such special duties and obligations by committing its performance to another; he is bound absolutely to perform the obligation, and he is liable for a failure to do so in any respect whereby injury results to others, whether such failure results from negligence or from wilful, wanton, or criminal conduct of the employee or agent to whom the duty has been committed. Being bound to do the act or perform the duty, if he does it by another the employer is treated as having done it himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carson v. Vance
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.