Smith v. People’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “The chief object of this statute is to protect workmen from falling into a shaft. We cannot say, however, that no other hazard was within the zone of apprehension____ A safeguard has been commanded, but without distinct enumeration of the hazards to be avoided. In the revealing light of experience the hazards to be avoided are disclosed to us as the hazards that ensued.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carmody v. ADM Milling Co.

2. “The chief object of this statute is to protect workmen from the hazard of falling into a shaft. We cannot say, however, that no other hazard was within the zone of apprehension [of the legislature]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Violette v. Armonk Associates, L.P.