Cullen v. . Norton’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently June 1924 · most notably 11 E.H. Smith 251 - Perry v. . Rogers (1898), 5 E.H. Smith 417 - Kimmer v. . Weber (1897)
4 federal appellate · 112 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.
Relationships
Relies on Crispin v. . Babbitt · McGovern v. Central Vermont R. R. · Pantzar v. . Tilly Foster Iron Mining Co. · Loughlin v. . State of New York · Kranz v. Long Island 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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The master furnished the mine as a place for labor, and it was solely on account of the manner in which the foreman, a fellow servant, performed the work, or directed it, that the accident happened, and happened in the course of the performance of the very kind and character of work which the plaintiff’s intestate took the risk of by accepting employment.””
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.