Cox v. Enloe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 6 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . He immediately told Cox that before he went to Phoenix he wanted to go home and get his coat and his dinner. To this request Cox assented. . . . “We will consider first whether the jury was justified in finding from the evidence that at the time of the .accident Ewing was acting in the course of his employment, as this is the principal question involved in the appeal. Under the rule of respondeat superior, the negligence of an employee is imputed to his employer, and the latter must answer in damages for such negligence. This rule, however, is subject to the qualification that if the employee at the time of the accident had abandoned his employment and was engaged in personal and private affairs not connected with the business of the employer, there is no liability on the part of the latter. Otero v. Soto, 34 Ariz. 87 , 267 Pac. 947 ; Schneider v. McAleer, 39 Ariz. 190 , 4 Pac. (2d) 903 ; Peters v. Pima Merc. Co., 42 Ariz. 454 , 27 Pac. (2d) 143 . ...””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCauley v. Steward