MacDonald Engineering Co. v. Manns’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

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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. ““We think this structure was a scaffold, within section 18 of the New York Labor Law, which the defendant ‘caused to be furnished’ to the plaintiff. That law makes the defendant answerable absolutely for the safety of such a scaffold. Stewart v. Ferguson, 164 N. Y. 553 [ 58 N. E. 662 ], The accident itself indicates that the stringer which broke was insufficient, and there was testimony to tlie effect that it was improperly constructed from unsuitable material.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Steel & Masonry Contracting Co. v. Reilly