Smith v. Stuart C. Irby Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1962
6 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 Missouri Pac. R.R. Co., Thompson v. Kagy · Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. v. Pipkin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think this testimony presented an issue of fact as to whether Ledgess, through inattention to his business, carelessly and negligently misunderstood the direction given him by appellant. It, of course, was the duty of Ledgess to keep his mind on the business in hand, and if his failure to do so caused him to push the keg instead of pulling it as directed his act or conduct constituted actionable negligence on the part of appellee’s servant and the negligence of the servant was attributable to appellee. . . . Had the issue been submitted to the jury they could have reasonably found that the reason Ledgess did not understand the direction was because he was giving his attention to the conversation between him 'and Ramsey rather than to the work in hand.””
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.