Casement v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
148 U.S. 615 · 1893
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 21 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 280 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell (1926), Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Bond (1916)
98 federal appellate · 21 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Robbins v. Chicago City · Chicago City v. Robbins · Water Company v. Ware · Ogden v. United States
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 280 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The will of the companies was represented only in the result of the work, and not in the means by which it was accomplished. This gave to the defendants the status of independent contractors. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]t would be placing too severe a condemnation on the conduct of the pilots in charge of the boats to say that their error of judgment, their dependence on the appearance of the stream, and their reliance upon the duty of the defendants to place suitable buoys or other warnings, was such contributory negligence as would relieve the defendants from liability for the results of their almost confessed, and certainly undoubted, negligence.” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.