Marshall v. Thomason’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1997
2 district · 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 Whitaker v. Keogh · Funderburk v. Powell · Portsmouth Transit Company v. Brickhouse · 121 F. Supp. 417 - Martin v. Savage Truck Line, Inc. · Rookard v. Atlantic & Charlotte Air Line Ry. 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no doubt that the driver had the power to make his employer liable by the manner in which he operated the vehicle. The truck was placed ip the sole charge of the driver to operate. It is unrealistic, to say the least, to hold that the driver was the agent of the employer for every purpose in connection with the operation of the vehicle, except to truthfully relate the manner in which he operated it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Branch v. Dempsey
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.