Daniels v. Conn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 44 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “was so closely connected in time, place and causation to his employment duties as to be regarded a risk of harm fairly attributable to the employer's business, as compared with conduct motivated by purely personal considerations entirely extraneous to the employer's interest”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hebert v. Witherington · Watson v. Ben

2. “".... where there are solvent and insolvent tortfeasors liable in solido, evidence of the insolvent defendant's inability to pay may not be considered by the trial judge (trier of fact) in determining damages to be awarded to the plaintiff, or in apportioning damages as between those joint tortfeasor defendants at the trial on the merits of plaintiff's claim."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 401 So. 2d 1033 - Burns v. Fernandez · 387 So. 2d 1200 - Lawes v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

3. “"In Brown v. New Amsterdam Casualty Company, 243 La. 271 , 142 So.2d 796 (1962), this Court stated that although the injured party's cause of action against either or both of two joint tortfeasors comes into being and the obligation of each tortfeasor to the injured party commences at the time a tort is committed, the rights and obligations as between the joint tortfeasors do not then arise, because the obligation between the joint tortfeasors are not created by the commission of the tort, but rather spring from the principle of contribution."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 385 So. 2d 1276 - McGrew v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.