Smith v. Trimble’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2009
19 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The plaintiff,] while engaged in that work, in using such parts of [the defendant’s] premises as were reasonably necessary to enable him to do his work, was on the premises under the assurance in law by [the defendant] that such parts so necessarily used were reasonably safe for the purposes of such use. But beyond that [the defendant] owed [the plaintiff] no duty greater than to a stranger or trespasser. And when [the plaintiff], without invitation or knowledge of the owner, went into or upon other parts of the premises, not necessary for the performance of his labor, he assumed all the risks of doing so. He was neither required, expected, nor allured to be at the place where he was injured, and consequently [the defendant] was under no duty to him to provide there a place of safety.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.