Sims v. . Lindsay’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1950
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assumption of risk is a matter of defense analogous to contributory negligence to be passed on by the jury, who are to say whether the employe voluntarily assumed the risk. It is not enough to show merely that he worked on knowing the danger, but, further, it is only where the machinery is so grossly and clearly defective that the employe must know of the extra risk, that he can be deemed to have voluntarily assumed the risk.””
1 later decision 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.