Carlson v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the instant case, one of the important features of the defendant’s business was the promotion of sales, and the display of goods upon the stand was strictly a part or process in that department of the business. The sawing of the lumber for this stand, a minor operation, while not perhaps strictly a part of the display, was clearly for the purpose of this feature of the defendant’s business. We feel that the case comes within the terms of General Statutes, §5223, and that the plaintiff is entitled to compensation. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Garrison v. Gortler

2. ““So also, in Ringwood v. Grand Trunk Pacific Ry. Co., 7 Alberta, L. R. 226, 17 D. L. R. 202, where a contractor had undertaken to put gravel on the approaches of the defendant’s railway tracks to the highways and one of his employees was injured in doing that work, Chief Justice Harvey said that the plaintiff’s work was ‘for the purposes’ of the railway company but not work in the way of the company’s business, which was the running of trains. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Garrison v. Gortler