Houser v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2017
1 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 150th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on El Chico Corp. v. Poole · Doe v. Boys Clubs of Greater Dallas, Inc. · Greater Houston Transportation Co. v. Phillips · Otis Engineering Corp. v. Clark · Estate of Arrington v. Fields
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the employee need not be acting in the scope of his employment to impose liability on the employer, the theory of negligent hiring and supervision does require that a plaintiff's harm be the result of the employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an insurer of the safety of every person who happens to come into contact with his employee simply because of his status as an employee.”
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.