McCall v. Roper’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2017
1 district · 5 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 Hamm v. Thompson · Farmers Elevator Company of Sterling v. Morgan · 32 Colo. App. 352 - McCall v. Roper · Western Insurance Co. v. Brochner · City of Aurora v. Powell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] joint tort is not actually involved when a master or a principal is held liable respectively for his servant's or agent's wrong.... The master or principal has not participated in the planning or the consummation of the tort; his liability is based instead on the doctrine of respondeat superior, which is grounded in the law of agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he common law rule prohibiting contribution between joint tortfeasors does not apply to a master whose liability for the torts of his servant is based on respondeat superior, for even though the liability is joint and the two may be joined in one action, they are not joint tortfeasors.”
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.