Williams v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.2d 569 · 1961
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1991
9 federal appellate · 1 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 Thompson v. Commercial Nat. Bank · Ransom v. Kreeger Store, Inc. · De Hart v. Travelers Ins. Co. · 55 So. 2d 633 - Matranga v. Travelers Ins. Co. · Nelson v. Crescent City Railroad
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The master is answerable for the damage caused to individuals or to the community in general by whatever is thrown out of his house into the street or public road, and inasmuch as the master has the superintendence and police of his house, and is responsible for the faults committed therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ozols v. Irving“A. Every act whatever of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repairs it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ozols v. Irving
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.