Mosely v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Terry Jd v. Ac Cook D (1989), Carr v. City of Florence (1990)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 McClurkin v. McClurkin · Caples v. Young · Taylor v. Hoffman · National Surety Co. v. Boone · Rogers v. Carroll
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.
“In general, the acts of the deputy sheriff are the acts of the sheriff. The deputy sheriff is the alter ego of the sheriff.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Bailey · Ex Parte Davis““I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that you can take into consideration, in addition to the evidence adduced from the witness stand, the fact that the statute provides a reward of $50 to be allowed the sheriff or other officer or person who furnished the evidence, and brings about a conviction in distilling cases.””
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.