Anderson v. Covert’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Wegner v. Delly-Land Delicatessen, Inc. (1967), 157 So. 2d 190 - Columbia by the Sea, Inc. v. Petty (1963)
5 federal appellate · 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 Mott v. . Consumers' Ice Company · Terry v. Burford · Hunt-Berlin Coal Co. v. Paton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The rule recognized in all the recent cases, and which does not materially conflict with any of the older decisions, although it may qualify some of the intimations and casual expressions or illustrations of the judges, is that for the acts of the servant, within the general scope of his employment, while engaged in his master's business, and done with a view to the furtherance of that business and the master's interest, the master will be responsible, whether the act be done negligently, wantonly, or even willfully. In general terms, if the servant misconducts himself in the course of his employment, his acts are the acts of the master, who must answer for them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“threw him out, and in doing so, gave him a very brutal beating, kicking him in the sides and back and knocking out several of his teeth.”
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.