Roberson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2010
10 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 City Delivery Co. v. Henry · Aggregate Limestone Co. v. Robison · Jones v. Wise · Geneva Gin & Storage Co. v. Rawls · Stewart v. Weaver
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plain meaning of this is that where proof that an agent committed an intentional, wanton, or negligent act while in the line and scope of his employment, liability for such act would be imputed to the principal, regardless of the actual participation of the principal in the intentional, wanton or negligent act or omission under the doctrine of respondeat superior. This act, of course, sets up a new statutory form of action.” ( 276 Ala. at page 342 , 161 So.2d at page 824 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . . subject, however, to the right of the party or parties against whom such testimony is offered to thereupon plead the statute of limitations which might have been applicable to the case made by the evidence offered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he difference between trespass to chattels and conversion is immaterial *Page 385 when there is a 'wrongful taking and carrying away of the property of another,'”
1 later decision 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.