Heimlich v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2001
11 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 Vilter Manufacturing Co. v. Industrial Commission · Pfister & Vogel Leather Co. v. Industrial Commission · Hafemann v. Seymer
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it appears to us as well as to the jury that [Dr. Harvey] has completely acknowledged the acts of Dr. Baird to be his own, which is a very good recognition of responsibility under the familiar doctrine of respondeat superior.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“testified that Dr. Baird worked for him for a salary plus commission,”
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.