Greer v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2004
17 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 Mobile & O. R. Co. v. Johnson · Columbus & G. Ry. Co. v. Buford · Mobile & O. R. Co. v. Bennett · Beale & Strayhorn v. Clayborn
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"One fellow servant is liable to another fellow servant for his negligence proximately causing the injury of the latter. It is a common-law obligation co-existent with the law of negligence."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buffat v. Schnuckle“As we view the record, there was no joint adventure or enterprise in the eyes of the law. There was interdependence; but no such relation as made them joint adventurers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Cleveland
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.