Felicia Page Davis and Glenn W. Davis v. Phyllis O. Harrod and Dennette Harrod’s Empirical Analysis
407 F.2d 1280 · 1969
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2024
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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.
Relationships
Relies on Johansen v. United States · George G. Allman v. W. H. Hanley · Aubrey v. United States · Riegger v. Bruton Brewing Co. · Ewald v. Lane
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the interest of compensation to the victim, it should not be presumed that the immunity from liability given to the negligent person is carried over to others whom the victim can sue. Rather, the presumption should be the other way. That, unless the purpose of the immunity would be thwarted by carrying it over to others, suit against others will lie.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In an action against a principal based on the conduct of a servant in the course of employment ... [t]he principal has no defense because of the fact that ... the agent had an immunity from civil liability as to the act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.