Geib v. Slater’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably 99 Wis. 2d 179 - Swanigan v. State Farm Insurance (1980), Cox v. City of Freeman, Missouri (1963)
5 federal appellate · 10 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 Riser v. Riser · Frye v. City of Detroit · Wieczorek v. Merskin · Larabell v. Schuknecht · Garstka v. Republic Steel Corp.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant is guilty of no tortious act; he did not participate in the commission of the tort; and his liability arises only by operation of law. He is not a joint tort-feasor, but his statutory liability is based upon the doctrine of respondeat superior.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . `The liability of the owner of a motor vehicle for damages caused by the negligent operation thereof by another person, rests upon the doctrine of agency, express or implied. The liability is based upon the doctrine of respondeat superior.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“solely on the statute which imposes liability upon the owner of a motor vehicle for negligence of persons operating it with his consent.”
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.