Alaska Treadwell Gold Min. Co. v. Whelan’s Empirical Analysis
168 U.S. 86 · 1897
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1950 · most notably Atlantic Transport Company of West Virginia v. Frank Imbrovek (1914), Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Schwyhart (1913)
64 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Northern Pac Co v. Peterson · Central Railroad v. Keegan · Martin v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad · Northern Pac Co v. Charless
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Finley was not a vice principal or representative of the corporation. lie was not the general manager of its business, or the superintendent of any department of that business. But lie was merely the foreman or boss of the particular sang of men to which the plaintiff belonged. Whether he had or liad not authority to engage and discharge the men under him, is immaterial. Even if he had such authority, lie was none the less a fellow servant with them, employed in the same department of business and under a common head. There was no evidence that he was ail unsuitable person for his place, or that the machinery was imperfect or defective for its purpose. The negligence, if any, was his own negligence in using the machinery or in giving orders to the men.””
3 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.