Cain v. Marquez’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 23 Cal. 2d 600 - Loper v. Morrison (1944), 59 Cal. 2d 668 - Meyer v. Blackman (1963)
10 federal appellate · 25 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 Kish v. California State Automobile Ass'n · Ryan v. Farrell · Riley v. . Standard Oil Co. · Tuttle v. Dodge · 81 Cal. App. 86 - Kruse v. White Brothers
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the established rule in this jurisdiction that where the servant is combining his own business with that of his master, or attending to both at substantially the same time, no nice inquiry will be made as to which business the servant was actually engaged in when a third person was injured; but the master will be held responsible, unless it clearly appears that the servant could not have been directly or indirectly serving his master.”
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.