DePolo v. Greig’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2015
4 federal appellate · 8 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs in their brief admit that an exception to the requirement of mutuality exists where the liability of the defendant is entirely dependent upon the culpability of one exonerated in a prior suit. 17 * * * * * * 18 "But conversely the rule applies where the principal has been exonerated in a prior suit which determined that the agent had committed no actionable wrong.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“But conversely the rule applies where the principal has been exonerated in a prior suit which determined that the agent had committed no actionable wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mackris v. Murray“did not involve the aspect of corporation and agent liability as in the present case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mackris v. Murray
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.