Francis Jonathan Wood v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the course-and-scope analysis “hinges on an objective assessment of whether the employee was doing his job”
• recognizing that employee may act in furtherance of employer’s business with its “express or implied approval”
• explaining that vicarious liability “arises only if the tortious act falls” within the scope of employment
• providing that respondeat superior or vicarious liability is a common law doctrine imputing liability for one person’s fault to another because of a relationship between them such as employer-employee
• noting that respondeat superior liability is “liability for one person’s fault [that] may be imputed to another who is himself entirely without fault solely because of the relationship between them”
• explaining that the doctrine of vicarious liability arises only with an applicable tortious act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).