11 E.H. Smith 251 - Perry v. . Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1927 · most notably Kreigh v. Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. (1909), Southern Indiana Railway Co. v. Harrell (1903)
20 federal appellate · 55 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 Armour v. Hahn · Cullen v. . Norton · Loughlin v. . State of New York · Hussey v. . Coger · 5 E.H. Smith 417 - Kimmer v. . Weber
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But it has not been understood to be the rule in this state that in the performance of work of this character the master, after making his place in the first instance reasonably safe for the prosecution of the work, has any duty to perform other than in the furnishing of safe appliances and the employment of competent and skillful employees.”
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.