John v. Lococo’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably Wood v. Southeastern Greyhound Lines (1946), Keller v. Safeway Stores, Inc. (1940)
9 federal appellate · 19 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 Hardeman v. Williams · Tyler v. Stephan's Administratrix · Wells v. Henderson Land & Lumber Co. · Rahmel v. Lehndorff · New Ellerslie Fishing Club v. Stewart
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the assault of a servant of a third person is done in the execution of the authority given him by the master and for the purpose of performing what he was directed to do, the master is responsible whether the wrong done was occasioned by a wanton, willful. purpose, or to accomplish his business in an unlawful manner, but, if the servant commits a wrongful act without authority, and not for the purpose of executing the orders or doing the work of his master, the latter is not responsible therefor.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is not, as a general rule, within the scope of the servant ’s employment to commit an assault upon a third person and the master is not liable for such an assault, though committed while the servant was about his master’s business.” (See, also, John v. Lococo, 256 Ky. 607 , 76 S. W. (2d) 897 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the servant was doing what he was employed to do at the time of the injury; that is, the act of the servant was ... reasonably incident to the service the servant was employed to render.”
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.