Favorite v. Cottrill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The English rule, as declared by Lord Holt in the case of Lane v. Cotton, 12 Mod. 488, is that, for the neglect of the servant, third persons can have no remedy against him, but that the master alone is chargeable; but for a misfeasance or actual tort an action will lie against the servant because he is a wrongdoer. The general principle is that those who participate in the commission of a trespass by counseling, aiding, or abetting it, are equally liable with the person who actually committed it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wines v. Crosby & Co.

2. ““The fact that appellant was the president of the corporation is no protection to him in the commission of an illegal act, and, where an officer of an incorporation performs an illegal act resulting in an injury to another, he is liable. Nor does it exonerate him from such liability because the corporation may also be liable.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wines v. Crosby & Co.

3. ““Here the injury inflicted was not theoretical or fanciful, but quite substantial, and the plaintiff was only precluded from recovering substantial damages because of the state of the pleadings. We will therefore overrule the assignment. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McConathy v. Deck