Brooks v. Arnett’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1953
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 Gibralter Coal Mining Co. v. Nalley · Gibraltar Coal Mining Company v. Collins · Ray v. United Elkhorn Coal 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the plaintiff relies upon defective tools or instrumentalities or upon the failure ■ of his employer to furnish him a reasonably safe place in which to work, he must allege and prove a knowledge of the danger by the defendant and want of such knowledge of danger by himself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Read v. Carter
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.