Danforth v. Fisher’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably Aversa v. United States (1996), Guthrie v. Holmes (1917)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 Barnes v. Starr · Slater v. Advance Thresher Co. · Stone v. Hills · McCarthy v. Timmins · Evans v. Dyke Automobile 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“•‘The test to determine whether a master is liable to a stranger for the consequences of his servant’s misconduct is to inquire whether the latter was doing what he was employed to do at the time he caused the injury complained of.””
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.