Carpenter v. Sinclair Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1973
2 district · 12 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 Crimmins v. Booth · Hall v. Henry Thayer & Co. · Dulligan v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. · Leary v. William G. Webber Co. · Delaney v. Framingham Gas, Fuel & Power Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“warn him of the dangers incident to his work which he did not know of or appreciate, and could not reasonably have discovered ... [but] which dangers ... [it] knew or should have known.”
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.