Aronovitch v. Ayres’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Ayres v. Harleysville Mutual Casualty Co. (1939), Smithey v. Sinclair Refining Co. (1961)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Hough v. Railway Co. · Fonda v. St. Paul City Railway Co. · Boggs v. Plybon · Rawle v. McIlhenny · P. Lorillard Co. v. Clay
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, when as here, the doctrine of fellow-servant is invoked to escape liability, a different principle applies. One must not knowingly subject his servants to the hazards of incompetent or careless associates. In such a case, the fact that injury was suffered at the handg of a fellow-servant, may be no defense at all. “Among the duties which the master personally owes to his servants is that of using ordinary care to select competent servants, * * * ””
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.