56 Kan. App. 2d 592 - Nash v. Blatchford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 4 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is elemental that every person conduct his [or her] business so as not to cause injury to others, and if he [or she] conducts business through others, he [or she] is bound to manage them so third persons are not injured by the others while they are doing the principal's business within the scope of their authority. The doctrine is a 'fiction of the law,' not favored in this state, which is limited to master/servant (employer/employee) and joint enterprise relationships. These are relationships in which the potential respondents have sufficient control and responsibility for the actions of others to justify holding them liable for their actions. [Citations omitted.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Long v. Houser

2. “Vicarious liability is a term generally applied to legal liability which arises solely 4 because of a relationship and not because of any actual act of negligence by the person held vicariously liable for the act of another.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Long v. Houser

3. “'the opportunity to investigate the claim, to assess its liability, to attain settlement, and to avoid costly litigation.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. R.P. v. First Student, Inc.