89 Cal. App. 511 - Wagnitz v. Scharetg’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1970 · most notably 20 Cal. 2d 457 - Blank v. Coffin (1942), 21 Cal. 2d 654 - Hicks v. Reis (1943)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 81 Cal. App. 86 - Kruse v. White Brothers · 30 Cal. App. 157 - House v. Fry
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the evidence conclusively shows that a servant deviated from the general scope of his authority in but a slight and not unusual manner, the court may as a matter of law determine that the servant was about his master’s business. If the deviation is great and unusual, the court may likewise as a matter of law determine that the servant was not about his master’s business but his own. Cases falling between these extremes will be regarded as involving merely a question of fact to be left to the jury.” (Citing Berry, The Law of Automobiles, 4th ed., pp. 1078, 1079, and cases cited; also, Kruse et al. v. White Bros. et al., 81 Cal. App., at p. 86 [ 253 Pac. 178 ].)”
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.