Stout v. Schell’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cosden Pipe Line Co. v. Berry · Prickett v. Sulzberger & Sons Co. · Producers' & Refiners' Corp. v. Castile · Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Rogers · Buxton v. Hicks
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the common law doctrine of fellow servants has not been abrogated or modified, the master is not liable for injury to a servant resulting from the negligence of a fellow servant, in the absence of a showing that the master failed to exercise reasonable care in selecting, employing or retaining such servant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.