Stringham v. . Hilton’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently June 1937 · most notably Butler v. . Townsend (1891), Sappenfield v. Main Street & Agricultural Park Railroad (1891)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Burke v. . Witherbee · King v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. · Gottlieb v. . N.Y., L.E. W.R.R. Co. · McCosker v. . Long Island Railroad Co.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He is required to furnish such as are reasonably safe (Burke v. Witherbee, 98 N. Y. 562 ; Probst v. Delamater, 100 N. Y. 266 , 3 N. E. 184 ), and to see that there is no defect in those which his employés must use (Gottlieb v. Railroad Co., 100 N. Y. 462 , 3 N. E. 344 ). The test is not whether the master omitted to do something he could have done, but whether, in selecting tools and machinery for their use, he was reasonably prudent and careful; and not whether better machinery might have been obtained, but whether that provided was in fact adequate and proper for the use to which it was to be applied. These rules are not violated when such machinery becomes unsafe-only when negligently or carelessly used. King v. Railroad Co., 66 N. Y. 181 ; s. c. 72 N. Y. 607 .””
2 later decisions 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.