Quebec Co v. Merchant’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 federal appellate · 15 district · 17 state decisions

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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The case, therefore, falls within the well-settled rule, as to which it is unnecessary to cite cases, which exempts an employer from liability for in juries <to a servant caused by another servant. * * * ””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hermann v. Port Blakely Mill Co. · Panama R. v. Johnson

2. ““The carpenter had no authority over the plaintiff, nor had the porter. They and the plaintiff had all signed the shipping articles; and the division into departments was one evidently for the convenience of administration on the vessel, and did not have the effect of causing the porter and the carpenter not to be fellow servants. * * * There was nothing in the employment or service of the carpenter or the porter which made either of them any more the representative of: the defendant than the employment and service of the stewardess made her such representative.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Northern Pacific Railroad v. Hambly · Baltimore & O. R. v. Camp