Davidson v. . Cornell’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Shepard v. United States (1933), Texas Ry Co v. Archibald (1898)
16 federal appellate · 79 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Gibson v. . Erie Railway Co. · Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad v. Huntley · Robb v. Hackley & Welton · Kent v. Town of Lincoln · Ryan v. . Fowler
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is, as a general rule, true that a servant entering into employment which is hazardous assumes the usual risks of the service, and those which are apparent to ordinary observation; and, when he accepts or continues in the service with knowledge of the character of structures from which injury may he apprehended, he also assumes the hazards incident to the situation.””
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.