Bennett v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] vice-principal includes four classes of human agents: (a) Corporate officers; (b) those who have authority to employ, direct, and discharge servants of the master; (c) those engaged in the performance of nondelegable or absolute duties of the master; and (d) those to whom a master has confided the management of the whole or a department or division of his business.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Century Sur. Co. v. Seidel · Century Surety Company v. Ajredin Deari

2. “[w]hen actions are taken by a vice-principal of a corporation, those acts may be deemed to be the acts of the corporation itself.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Century Sur. Co. v. Seidel · Century Surety Company v. Ajredin Deari

3. “used corporate authority over corporate employees, on corporate land, to [commit a tort] using corporate equipment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Century Sur. Co. v. Seidel · Century Surety Company v. Ajredin Deari