Myers v. Staub’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1993
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Clayton v. Enterprise Electric Co. · Turnidge v. Thompson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally, all owners, contractors or subcontractors and other persons having charge of, or responsible for, any work involving a risk or danger to the employes or the public, shall use every device, care and precaution which it is practicable to use for the protection and safety of life and limb, limited only by the necessity for preserving the efficiency of the structure, machine or other apparatus or device, and without regard to the additional cost of suitable material or safety appliances and devices.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“control of the instrumentality involved is the essential element to a cause of action under the Employers' Liability Law against a defendant who is not the employer of the injured employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“primary control of the physical instrumentalities immediately in use and which are the media of the injuries or death giving rise to a claim of damage under that law.”
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.