Noyes v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 1928 · most notably City of LaSalle v. Kostka (1901), Porter v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad (1879)
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is only such injuries as have arisen after the exercise of that diligence and care on the part of the master that can properly be termed accidents or casualties, which the servant has impliedly agreed to risk,’ and for which the master is not liable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.