Skow v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 1995
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Jackson v. . Telegraph Co. · Waaler v. Great Northern Railway Co. · Waaler v. Great Northern Ry. 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is so because the servant’s motive is usually a material issue. Thus in this case the real question presented is whether [the servant] committed the assault as a result of his desire to [carry out the master’s business], or whether he assaulted plaintiff simply to effect some purpose of his own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he cases on the subject are legion, and each is dependent upon the peculiar fact situation presented.”
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.