Pyle v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 360 · 1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2007
4 federal appellate ·
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 Alvado v. General Motors Corp. · Bonnie J. Bissell v. Edmond J. McElligott Etc., Sylvia Lynn Gampher v. Edmond J. McElligott Etc. · Riggs v. Higgins · Burger Chef Systems, Inc. v. Govro · United States v. Mraz
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is generally held that getting to the place of work is ordinarily a personal problem of the employee and not a part of his services to his employer, so that in the absence of some special benefit to the employer other than the mere making of the services available at the place where they are needed, the employee is not acting within the scope of his employment in traveling to work, even though he uses his employer’s motor vehicle, and therefore the employer cannot be held liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior to one injured by the employee’s negligent operation of the vehicle on such trip.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fackrell v. Marshall“[T]he unique control which the Government maintains over a soldier has little if any bearing upon determining whether his activity is within the scope of his employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the right of the employer to control the physical acts or movements of the employee at the very moment of the occurrence”
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.