Smith v. Landmark Communications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2018
6 federal appellate · 5 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 Tri-State Coach Corp. v. Walsh · Davis v. Merrill · Nixon v. Rowland · Sayles v. Piccadilly Cafeterias, Inc. · Manuel v. Cassada
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he mere act of traveling to work was not a natural incident of [the employer's] business and, thus, it did not place [the paper carrier's] actions within the scope of the employment relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“wholly from some external, independent, and personal motive on the part of the servant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from some impulse or emotion which naturally grew out of or was incident to the attempt to perform the master's business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.