Sonnenborn v. Gartrell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When the plaintiff complained to her mistress that the stool appeared weak, and was told by the mistress that she herself used the stool, and as it was necessary to use the stool in performance of her duties and no other was available, the servant-plaintiff was entitled to assume or interpret her employer’s remark about herself using the stool as a direction for the servant to do so. In those circumstances the doctrine would not be applicable.” (Italics supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sonnenborn v. Gartrell

2. ““ T further charge you that if the employee uses an appliance that is dangerous and defective with knowledge of the danger and the defect, there can be no recovery, even though the appliance is used at the direct command of a superior.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sonnenborn v. Gartrell