Arthur v. . Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2018
10 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e must hold that the work to be done[, blasting,] was of such character that the defendant [quarry owner] could not protect himself by the lease he made, and that he is liable for the acts of the [independent contractor] in the prosecution of the work.”
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.