Rabon v. Guardsmark, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.2d 1277 · 1978
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Worcester Insurance v. Fells Acres Day School, Inc. (1990), Niece v. Elmview Group Home (1997)
11 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · New Jersey Steamboat Co. v. Brockett · South Carolina State Highway Department v. Wilson · Springfield v. Williams Plumbing Supply Co. · Hairston v. . Greyhound Corp.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the extent of this liability depends upon the duty assumed”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fpllaintiff's right to recovery may be sustained only by extending the exception to the traditional rule of respondeat superior that a principal is not liable for his servant’s unauthorized intentional tort in derogation of the common law.” Id. at 1282 . The court held that even though South Carolina followed the common carrier doctrine imposing broader liability, it did not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he master may be under such a duty to the plaintiff that responsibility for the servant's acts may not be delegated to him. This is true in particular in those cases where the master, by contract or otherwise, has entered into some relation requiring him to be responsible for the protection of the plaintiff.”
1 later decision 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.