Smith v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
100 F. 244 · 1900
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1972
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Little v. Hackett · Smith v. Day
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That one going voluntarily in the prosecution oí his own business on premises where blasting was being done by contractors, knowing that blasting was ■going on, assumed tlie risks incident to the prosecution of the work with ordinary care, though he was there by sufferance or permission of the contractors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Erie R. v. Burke
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.