Sacker v. Waddell’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1985 · most notably Whitehead v. Safway Steel Products, Inc. (1985), MacKall v. Zayre Corp. (1982)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad v. Hogeland · Deford v. State ex rel. Keyser · Kimball v. Cushman · Joslin v. Grand Rapids Ice Co. · Huff v. Ford
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the facts are such as to make it doubtful whether the relation between the servant and the original master continued for the particular service during which the accident happened, it is usually a question for the jury to determine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hooper v. Brawner
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.