Schoner v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1951
5 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 Sullivan v. India Manufacturing Co. · Dowling v. Gerard B. Allen & Co. · Jones v. Florence Mining Co. · Treweek v. Howard · Birmingham Railway & Electric Co. v. Allen
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that where the master knows the employment is dangerous, and also knows that the servant is ignorant and inexperienced in the employment, and has no knowledge of the dangers incident thereto, it is the duty of the master to warn the servant of the danger and instruct him to avoid it. If the failure to perform such duty resulted in injury to the servant, the master is liable. Even where the danger is patent and open to observation, it is the duty of the master to warn and instruct the servant in regard to it, if through inexperience, or from any cause whatever, the servant is unable to understand fully and appreciate the nature and extent of said danger.””
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.