Wiley v. . Solvay Process Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 1974 · most notably Woollcott v. . Shubert (1916), Matter of Sullivan Co., Inc. (1942)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 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 Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Southern Railway Co. v. Crockett · Caddy v. . Interborough Rapid Transit Co. · Gmaehle v. . Rosenberg · Gombert v. . McKay
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.
““The words used in the act of 1902, namely ‘ways, works, and machinery,’ did not include everything furnished to the employe for his use in the business of the employer. * * ® The word ‘plant’ was added to that section by chapter 352 of the Laws of 1910. It cannot be reasonably doubted that the change was made for the benefit of the employes, and to make certain that everything reasonably required for the safety of an employe in the conduct of the master’s business would be .included in the statute, by the use of the word ‘plant.’ * The, word ‘plant’ in its ordinary acceptation, when used in connection with and relating to a business, includes everything other than supplies and stock in trade necessary and requisite to the carrying on of the business.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The word ‘plant’ in its ordinary acceptation, when used in connection with and relating to a business, includes everything other than supplies and stock in trade necessary and requisite to "the carrying on of the business. It includes in the language of Lindley, B. J. (Yarmouth v. France, L. R. 19 Q. B. Div. 647, 658): ‘Whatever apparatus is used by a business man for carrying on his business — not his stock in trade which he buys or makes for sale; but .all goods and chattels, fixed or movable, live or dead, which he keeps for permanent employment in his business.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Applying; therefore, the various tests above suggested, we conclude that anything (as distinguished from persons), animate or inanimate, and whether 'fixed or movable, that is regularly used in the conduct of the business of an . employer, and that is neither ways, works, nor machinery, and without which, or something of a similar character, such business could not be carried on In the usual and ordinary manner, may be deemed to be a portion of the plant connected with such business.””
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.