Schecter v. Merchants Home Delivery, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that “the right to control means the right to control an employee in the performance of a task and in its result, and not the actual exercise of control or supervision” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “ ‘Conduct is within the scope of employment only if the servant is actuated to some extent by an intent to serve his master.’ ”
• “Respondeat superior is a doctrine of vicarious liability and allows the employer to be held liable for the acts of his employees committed within the scope of their employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).