Stewart v. . Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 1970 · most notably Marino v. . Lehmaier (1903), Amberg v. . Kinley (1915)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 54 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 Butler v. . Townsend · 5 E.H. Smith 417 - Kimmer v. . Weber · Dillon v. . Sixth Avenue Railroad Company · Kunzmann v. . New York and Rockaway Beach Railway Company
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 18. Scaffolding for Use of Employees. A person employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind in the erection, repairing, altering or painting of a house, building or structure shall not furnish or erect, or cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders or other mechanical contrivances which are unsafe, unsuitable or improper, and which are not so constructed, placed and operated as to give proper protection to the life and limb of a person so employed or engaged. “Sec. 19. All swinging and stationary scaffolding shall be so constructed as to bear four times the maximum weight required to be dependent therefrom or placed thereon, when in use,” etc.”
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.