Clawson v. Schroeder’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2011
18 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 Birch v. Abercrombie · Van Blaricom v. . Dodgson · Hays v. Hogan · Daily v. Maxwell · Stowe v. Morris
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The essence of the doctrine of respondeat superior is that of agency. The relation of parent and child, or husband and wife, or other family connection, unaccompanied by the contractual relation of employer and employee, is not sufficient to create responsibility on the part of the one for the act or omission of the other.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Castle v. Thisted“The basic principle of liability is agency, and the father cannot be ... held responsible for the negligence of his minor son in the absence of proof of the existence of agency at the time of the accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. J.L. v. Kienenberger
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.