Borders v. Borders’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The appellants argue that Johnnie was Mearlene’s agent and therefore his negligence should be imputed to her so as to bar a recovery. There is no merit in that argument (even assuming that there could be considered to have been an agency relationship in the family courtesy trip) because the doctrine of imputation of negligence from agent to principal applies only as concerns the principal’s liability to, or right to recover from, a third person — not as concerns the liability of the agent to the principal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kirby v. Kirby