Lyon v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.2d 649 · 1976
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 27 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Faragher v. City of Boca Raton (1998), Sundstrand Corp. v. Sun Chemical Corp. (1977)
26 federal appellate · 27 district · 27 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 292
Relies on New York Central Hudson River Railroad Company v. United States · Davis v. Merrill · Grimes v. B. F. Saul Co. · Dilli v. Johnson
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“simply a personal adventure of the deliveryman . . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was perhaps at the outer bounds of respondeat superior . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 818 F. Supp. 6 - Guzel v. State of Kuwait · International Distributing Corporation, a Maryland Corporation v. American District Telegraph Company, International Distributing Corporation, a Maryland Corporation v. American District Telegraph Company, a West Virginia Corporation v. George E. Hines, Walter T. Smith, Jr“It is now fully established that corporations may be held liable for negligent and malicious torts, and that responsibility will be imputed whenever such wrongs are committed by their employees and agents in the course of their employment and within its scope . . . . [T]hey . . [impute] liability on the part of the principal when the agent is engaged in the work that its principal has employed or directed him to do and . in the effort to accomplish it. When such conduct comes within the description that constitutes an actionable wrong, the corporation principal, ... is liable not only for “the act itself, but for the ways and means employed in the performance thereof.” [Lyon v. Carey, supra, 174 U.S.App.D.C. at 426 , 533 F.2d at 653 , quoting Munick v. City of Durham, 181 N.C. 188, 193-94 , 106 S.E. 665, 667-68 (1921) (emphasis added in Lyon v. Carey).]”
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.