Vargo v. Sauer’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
3
states following
December 2015
most recently cited
12 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court's dismissal of this action was premature because a factual issue was presented with respect to whether Dr. Sauer was acting `in the course and scope of [his] employment' solely on behalf of MSU or whether he was simultaneously operating as an agent of St. Lawrence Hospital.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“MSU medical faculty received a fixed annual salary from MSU and the affiliated hospitals pay MSU the patient fees generated by MSU faculty and students.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harvey v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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