Goldie v. Werner’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 1937 · most notably Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Heerey (1903), Illinois Central Railroad v. Smith (1904)
59 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 Chicago & Alton Railroad v. May · Joliet, Aurora & Northern Railway Co. v. Velie · Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Adler · Deshler v. Beers · Hamburg-American Packet Co. v. Gattman
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The servant, in order to recover for defects in the appliances of the business is called'upon to establish three propositions: 1st, That the appliance was defective ; 2nd, That the master had notice thereof, or knowledge, or ought to have had; 3rd, That the servant did not know of the defect, and had not equal means of knowing with the master. ’ ’”
1 later decision 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.