Walson v. McGregor’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Howe v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Hammarberg v. St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. · Mullin v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Grout v. Tacoma Eastern Railroad · Morrison v. Northern Pacific Railway 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If defendants are correct in their contention that under the common or decision law of Washington plaintiff and the engineer were fellow servants, the trial court erred in submitting this ground of liability [speed] to the jury, as it is clear that under our decisions declaring the law on the subject plaintiff and the engineer were fellow servants. If, however, the accident occurring in Washington, the law of that state would sustain a recovery by plaintiff for the negligence of the engineer, it was not error to submit this issue to the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Novotny v. Bouley
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.