Green v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2004
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
Relies on City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Gibbs v. General Motors Corporation · Womack v. Allstate Insurance Company · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Hagenloh · Dillingham v. Russell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not whether the servant’s employment contemplated the use of force, but whether the act complained of arose directly out of and was done in the prosecution of the business that the servant was employed to do. Even under that rule, a plaintiff is denied recovery where the employee at the time of the assault was not acting within the scope of his employment but was furthering his own interest.”
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.