Daniels v. Dauphine’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2018
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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1263
Relies on 372 So. 2d 1225 - Chaisson v. Domingue · 397 So. 2d 490 - Vermilion Corp. v. Vaughn · Blanchard v. Ogima · Carter v. CITY PARISH GOVERNMENT, ETC. · 289 So. 2d 104 - Jones v. Robbins
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Assuming for purposes of discussion that [the property occupant] was [the property owner’s] agent and that [the occupant’s] conduct was tortious, nevertheless a principal is not liable for the physical torts of a non-servant agent. Only when the relationship of the parties includes the principal’s right to control physical details of the actor as to the manner of his performance which is characteristic of master and servant does the person in whose service the act is done become subject to liability for the physical tortious conduct of the actor.... ... Physical conduct relates to the agent’s movements and his control of physical forces and physical details as to the manner of performance of the agent’s services .... (Citations omitted; emphasis and brackets supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The same basic rule applies to independent contractors generally.”
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.