Curtis v. McNair’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Jewell v. Kansas City Bolt & Nut Co. (1910), Dakan v. G. W. Chase, & Son Mercantile Co. (1906)
113 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 Mather v. Rillston · Settle v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad · Wendler v. People's House Furnishing Co. · Blanton v. Dolb · Herdler v. Buck's Stove & Range Co.
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a legal principle that in all occupations which are attended with great and unusual danger there must be used all appliances readily attainable known to science for the prevention of accidents, and that the neglect to provide such readily attainable appliances will be regarded as proof of culpable negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kuhn v. Lusk“It is the duty of the master to exercise reasonable care, commensurate with the nature of the business, to protect his servant from the hazards incident to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conner v. Ogletree“a special plea that plaintiff assumed such a risk is unnecessary,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.