Strock v. Pressnell’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 295 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 377 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Mussivand v. David (1989), Byrd v. Faber (1991)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 295 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Lemon v. Kurtzman · Sherbert v. Verner · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division · Munn v. Illinois
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 377 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a person having a duty, created by his undertaking, to act primarily for the benefit of another in matters connected with his undertaking.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is axiomatic that for the doctrine of respondeat superior to apply, an employee must be liable for a tort committed in the scope of his employment. Likewise, an underlying requirement in actions for negligent supervision and negligent training is that the employee is individually liable for a tort or guilty of a claimed wrong against a third person, who then seeks recovery against the employer.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“refers to professional misconduct, i.e., the failure of one rendering services in the practice of a profession to exercise that degree of skill and learning normally applied by members of that profession in similar circumstances.'”
7 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.