Hocking v. Windsor Spring Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dorsey v. Phillips & Colby Construction Co. · Naylor v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Nadau v. White River Lumber Co. · Republic Iron & Steel Co. v. Ohler · Showalter v. Fairbanks, Morse & 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that the servant assumes the usual and ordinary risks of his employment; but before he can be held to have assumed an unusual or extraordinary risk he must know, or have reasonable means of knowing, the precise danger to which he is exposed and which- he thus assumes, and a mere vague surmise of the possibility of danger is not sufficient to warrant the court in taking the case from the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodge v. Kaufman
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.