Lebrane v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Benoit v. Hunt Tool Co. · Orrell v. Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance · Blair Development Corp. v. Key Development & Realty, Inc. · Placid Oil Co. v. North Central Texas Oil Co. · Pan American Petroleum Corporation v. Cocreham
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our view when LeBrane and Lewis reached the basement of the hotel on the service elevator and each invited the other outside to fight, what followed had nothing to do with Lewis' employment. The altercation had at this point become a purely personal matter between LeBrane and Lewis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the above cases, responsibility only attaches, when the masters or employers, teachers and artisans, might have prevented the act which caused the damage, and have not done it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the exercise of the functions in which (he was) employed”
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.