Patton v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2003
23 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 Leilich v. Chevrolet Motor Co. · Pruitt v. Harker · 236 Mo. App. 971 - Ellegood v. Brashear Freight Lines, Inc. · Wahlig v. Krenning-Schlapp Grocer Co. · McFarland v. Dixie MacHinery & Equipment 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the question of liability is always raised because of some specific act done, the important question is not whether or not he remains the servant of the general employer as to matters generally, but whether or not, as to the act in question, he is acting in the business of and under the direction of one or the other. It is not conclusive that in practice he would be likely to obey the directions of the general employer in case of conflict of orders.. The question is as to whether it is understood between him and his employers that he is to remain in the allegiance of the first as to a specific act, or is to be employed in the business of and subject to the direction of the temporary employer as to the details of such act.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In other cases this fact issue has resulted in holding the borrowed servant with respect to the particular act was the servant of the special employer. TriState would apply the rule that the general employer must resign full control and the special employer must have sole and exclusive control too broadly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The master’s liability thereunder [workers’ compensation acts] is not for a tort based on the rule of respondeat superi- or. The compensation law is broader than the common law principles of master and servant.”
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.