Langhorne v. Simington’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 1953 · most notably Gentry v. Swann Chemical Co. (1937), Birmingham Amusement Co. v. Norris (1927)
35 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 Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Gonzalez · Birmingham Ry. Light & Power Co. v. Moore · Central Railroad v. Keegan · Geo. Pacific Railway Co. v. Davis · Woodward Iron Co. v. Marbut
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is generally considered that the rule requiring an employer to provide his employe with a safe place does not operate ‘where the prosecution of the work itself makes the place and creates its dangers.’ ””
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.