Whitson v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 1902
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rait v. New England Furniture & Carpet Co. · Gahagan v. Aermotor Co.
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The decisive test in determining whether the doctrine of respondeat superior applies is whether the defendant had, under the contract of employment, the right to control in the given particular the conduct of the person doing the wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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