Johnson v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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

1. ““In substance the trial court instructed the jury that in the course of his employment as a caretaker and feeder of defendant’s dairy cattle, plaintiff’s husband assumed the usual risks of his employment, including whatever was the common hazard of attack and injury from dairy animals, and likewise any such hazards as were as much within the range of his own knowledge as of that of his employer; and if his death occurred from his incurring such usual and known risks there could be no recovery. We think the instructions on this phase of the case were adequate and precise, in view of the evidence. Counsel for .plaintiff bring into their argument that line of cases which hold it to be the employer’s duty to furnish his employee with safe appliances, animate as well as inanimate, with which to work. We thing such cases so manifestly not in point that they need not be considered.” (p. 783.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cruzan v. Grace