Force v. Standard Silk Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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. ““I can conceive of no more vicious doctrine than to liold that owners of mills, in whicli are machinery and belts such as these were, dangerous to those who should intermeddle with them unless skilled in the business, may employ inexperienced boys and put them to work in the rooms with this machinery, and leave them there at noon with parts of it in motion and the rest unguarded and easily iKv.'vsibio, without warning or instruction as to the danger of Intermeddling with il, or without positive instructions to keep away from it and not intermeddle, without being liable to Lite imputation of negligence in so doing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Standard Silk Co. v. Force