Smith v. Aaron’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Baldwin v. Wingfield · Ferguson v. Ben M. Hogan Company · Arkansas Drilling Co. v. Gross · Baker v. Pidgeon Thomas Co. · Southwestern Bell Telephone Company v. Casson
Most-quoted passages
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““. . . We hold that when a legislative enactment, as here, prescribes the minimum standards for the safety of an employee in mandatory language then such requirements supersede and render irrelevant any evidence as to custom and usage. To hold contra would deprive the statutory scheme, as devised by our legislature, of its purpose and effectiveness. “Even in the absence of statutory standards there is authority that ‘. . . . industry cannot be permitted to establish its own uncontrolled standard by adopting careless methods to save time, effort and money.’ . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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