Porter v. Cornett’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 1972 · most notably McAtee v. Holland Furnace Co. (1952), 66 Wash. 2d 125 - Feigenbaum v. Brink (1965)
57 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 Sutherland v. Davis · Johnson v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad · Price v. T. P. Taylor Co., Inc. · Poole v. Lutz & Schmidt, Inc. · Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. Co.'s Receiver v. Finnell's Admr.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of ‘assumption of risk’ historically arose under the general law of master and servant, and has for the most part been deemed a matter of contract. In negligence cases the same concept has been generally accepted as contributory negligence. In their legal effect, the two doctrines are identical. They deny the right of recovery where the injured person with knowledge of a dangerous situation voluntarily places himself in a position where he takes the chance of being hurt.” Porter v. Cornett, 306 Ky. 25, 29 , 206 S.W. 2d 83, 85 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Geller v. Geller · Bryant v. Conrad
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.