Parker v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Dodson v. Allstate Insurance (2001), Edwards v. Stills (1998)
30 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 W. M. Bashlin Co. v. Smith · Harkrider v. Cox · Blaylock v. Strecker · Riddell v. Little · Bona v. Thomas Auto 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You are instructed to assume there was in force in the State of Arkansas at the time of this occurrence a law which provided that a setdement with a[n] agent for any alleged harm by a party suing that agent, automatically releases the principal from any liability, unless it can be shown by a preponderance of the evidence that the principal was guilty of negligence or intentional conduct, independent of and apart from that of the agent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnes v. Everett
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.