Walker v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2014
16 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 Ferris v. . Sterling · Callas v. Independent Taxi Owners' Ass'n · Clark v. Hills · Kellogg v. Church Charity Foundation of Long Island · Commercial Standard Insurance v. Davis
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * There are many cases holding that where the name of a corporation or an individual is printed on the side of a truck it is sufficient to justify the inference that the corporation or individual is the owner of the truck and that its driver is the agent of the corporation or individual and was acting at the time in the course of its or his employment. J. H. Robinson Truck Lines, Inc. v. Jones, Tex.Civ.App., 139 S.W.2d 127, 129 ; Globe Laundry v. McLean, Tex. Civ.App., 19 S.W.2d 94, 95 ; Mrs. Baird’s Bakery v. Davis,. Tex.Civ.App., 54 S.W. 2d 1031, 1032 ; Freeman v. Texas Bread Co., Tex.Civ.App., Ill S.W.2d 307; Younger Bros. v. Power, 'Tex.Civ.App., 92 S.W.2d 1147 ; R. G. Duke & Son v. Burk, Tex.Civ.App., 233 S.W.2d 617 ; J. A. & E. D. Transport Co. v. Rusin, Tex.Civ.App., 202 S.W.2d 693 ; Highway Motor Freight Lines v. Slaughter, Tex. Civ.App., 84 S.W.2d 533 ; Austin Bros. v. Sill, Tex.Civ.App., 83 S.W.2d 716 ; Claer v. Oliver, Tex.Civ.App., 62 S.W.2d 354 ; Harper v. Highway Motor Freight Lines, Tex.Civ.App., 89 S.W.2d 448 ; Roadway Express v. Gaston, Tex.Civ. App., 90 S.W.2d 874 ; Weber v. Reagan, Tex.Civ.App., 91 S.W.2d 409 ; Southern Underwriters v. Girard, Tex.Civ. App., 107 S.W.2d 775 ; Howell v. J. Mandelbaum & Sons, 160 Iowa 119 , 140 N.W. 397 ; Peveto v. Smith, Tex.Civ. App., 113 S.W.2d 216 , affirmed in part, 134 Tex. 308 , 133 S.W.2d 572 ; Tyler Milk Products Co. v. Shipman, Tex.Civ. App., 129 S.W.2d 444 . “But we have been unable to find any case holding th”
4 later decisions 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.