Thatcher v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 1968 · most notably Mature v. Angelo (1953), Hartig v. American Ice Co. (1927)
10 federal appellate · 51 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Standard Oil Company v. Edward Anderson · Scheel v. Shaw · McNamara v. . Leipzig · Sieber v. Russ Bros. Ice Cream Co. · Puhlman v. Excelsior Express & Standard Cab Co.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The presumption is that if the injury happened while the driver was operating the truck it was in the original master's business, as it occurred in doing the specific thing the driver was engaged by the owner to do, and to whom the driver was directly responsible”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“while engaged in the service for which leased”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. No. 15814
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.