McGee v. Cuyler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' “It is the duty of the servant to exercise care to avoid injury to himself; he is under’ as great obligation to provide for his own safety from such dangers as are known to him, or are discernible by ordinary care upon his part, as the master is to provide for him. He must take ordinary care to learn the dangers which are likely to beset him in the ■service: He must not go blindly to his work where there is danger, he must inform himself; this is the law everywhere.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eyre-Shoemaker Construction Co. v. MacKin