Oaks v. Connors

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the fact that employee used his car at work for the employer’s benefit did not render the drive to work “special circumstances” warranting respondeat superior liability
• “Driving to and from work is generally not considered to be within the scope of a servant’s employment.... ” (emphasis added)
• “The cardinal rule of statutory interpretation is to ascertain and effectuate the intention of the legislature.”
• “The ‘right to control’ concept is key to a respondeat superior analysis in the motor vehicle context.”
• “[A] loss of consortium claim is derivative of the injured spouse’s claim for personal injury[.]”
• “[A] consortium claim must be filed jointly by a couple and tried concurrently with the claim of the physically injured spouse in order to avoid duplication of awards.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

178 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kerns v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-10-29· cited 1,050×
• Philip Morris Inc. v. Angeletti
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-05-16· cited 212×
• Casey v. Geek Squad® Subsidiary Best Buy Stores, L.P.
  D. Maryland· 2011-11-10· cited 206×
• Degren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-14· cited 158×
• Coburn v. Coburn
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-04-17· cited 149×
• Mayor of Baltimore v. Chase
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-07-27· cited 142×
• Williams v. Mayor of Baltimore
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-06-08· cited 120×
• Mayor and Council of Rockville v. Rylyns Enterprises, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-12-31· cited 111×
• Carter v. Reynolds
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2003-02-19· cited 106×
• Langston v. Riffe
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-06-28· cited 98×
• In Re Mark M.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-05· cited 96×
• State v. Green
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-07· cited 94×
• State v. Bell
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-11-17· cited 93×
• O'CONNOR v. Baltimore County
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-07-26· cited 93×
• Catonsville Nursing Home, Inc. v. Loveman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-05-15· cited 91×
• D'AOUST v. Diamond
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-01-31· cited 86×
• Marzullo v. Kahl
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-12· cited 85×
• Beyer v. Morgan State University
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-06-10· cited 84×
• Proctor v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-03-12· cited 84×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-08-10· cited 82×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Phipps v. General Motors Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-09-29· cited 219×
• Murphy v. Edmonds
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-02-07· cited 192×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-09-26· cited 133×
• Rose v. Fox Pool Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-07-05· cited 101×
• Embrey v. Holly
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-03-23· cited 96×
• Franklin v. Mazda Motor Corp.
  D. Maryland· 1989-02-02· cited 62×
• Globe Indemnity Co. v. Victill Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1969-10-01· cited 54×
• Outmezguine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-03· cited 49×
• Fish Market Nominee Corp. v. G.A.A. Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-12-16· cited 36×
• Klein v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-07-07· cited 32×
• Dhanraj v. Potomac Electric Power Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-03-27· cited 31×
• Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Cornelsen
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-06-21· cited 29×
• Parrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-07-19· cited 24×
• L.M.T. Steel Products, Inc. v. Peirson
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1981-02-06· cited 22×
• Alitalia Linee Aeree Italiane v. Tornillo
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-01-11· cited 22×
• Connors v. Oaks
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-06· cited 6×