Moore v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably 99 Wis. 2d 179 - Swanigan v. State Farm Insurance (1980), Phillips v. Mirac, Inc (2004)
6 federal appellate · 9 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 28 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.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““We now reiterate. The Michigan owner liability act, C.L.S.1954, § 257.401 (Stat.Ann.1952 Rev. § 9.-2101), is an enactment founded upon the police power of the State. Its obvious purpose is to make owners of automobiles liable for the negligent acts of those to whom they entrust their vehicles. Liability under the statute is not limited by the common-law tests applicable to the master-servant relationship. The fact that a common-law action under the master-servant doctrine preceded the statute (and still exists) does not create any exception from the terms of the statute in favor of employers as a class.” 350 Mich, at 394 , 86 N.W.2d at 596 .”
2 later decisions 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.