Harris v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1961
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Woodman v. Metropolitan Railroad · Illinois Central Ry. Co. v. Murphy's Admr. · American Savings Life Insurance v. Riplinger · Ballard & Ballard Co. v. Lee's Admr. · Boomer v. Wilbur
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have often ruled that, where the ordinary mode of doing work creates a nuisance or necessarily involves a trespass, the employer, in either event, is liable, though the one doing the work was not a simple employee, but an independent contractor”—”
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.