Timmons v. Silman’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 292 So. 2d 216 - LeBrane v. Lewis · 639 So. 2d 224 - Orgeron on Behalf of Orgeron v. McDonald · 559 So. 2d 467 - Ermert v. Hartford Ins. Co. · 279 So. 2d 735 - Wright v. Romano · Keen v. Pel State Oil Co., Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“predominant motive of the servant is to benefit himself ... does not prevent the act from being within the scope of employment. If the purpose of serving the master's business actuates the servant to any appreciable extent, the master is subject to liability if the act is otherwise within the service. So also, the act may be found to be in the service if not only the manner of acting but the act itself is done largely for the servant's purposes...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.