Bushell v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] person acts within the course and scope of his employment if the acts ... were done within the scope of the general authority given to Mr. Bushell by Syn-dex Corporation. Furthermore, the acts ... must have been done in furtherance of Syndex Corporation’s business, and the acts must have been done to accomplish the job for which Mr. Bushell was employed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Syndex Corp. v. Dean

2. “the jury's determination that Bushell's conduct was outrageous is not so against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence as to be manifestly unjust.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilson v. Monarch Paper Co.