vicarious liability
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 203 U.S. 399 - Frank Guy v. John a Donald · 1906Most cited · 136 citing opinions
when respondeat superior fails
When a man is carrying on business in his private interest and intrusts a part of the work to another, the world has agreed to make him answer for that other as if he had done the work himself. But there is always a limitation. ... when he could not select, could not control, and could not discharge, the guilty man, he does not answer for his torts.
How often courts cite the case defining “vicarious liability”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “vicarious liability” — 134 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.