Asher v. Byrnes’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1939
15 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 Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Swearingen · Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad v. Jones · L. R., M. R. & T. Ry. Co. v. Leverett · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Rogers · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Henrie
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a servant enters into the employment of' any one, he assumes the ordinary risks and hazards which are incident to the service, and this includes all,those defects and dangers which are obvious and patent. He assumes all the risks which he knows to exist and all those which are open and obvious.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.