Maestas v. Alameda Cattle Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1979
8 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 Horton v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. · State Bank of Commerce v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Lutz v. Atlantic & Pacific Railroad · Crawford v. Western Clay & Gypsum Products Co. · Mayer v. Lane
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.
““The circumstance of a servant stumbling'into dangerous machinery in the course of his employment is so common an experience and of such frequent occurrence, and accordingly so probable, that it seems to us that the risk of it must be in the mind of a prudent person charged with the legal duties of master.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Dale““ Whether the deceased knew and appreciated the danger and nevertheless performed the service, or whether the conditions were such that he, as an ordinarily prudent man, must have known the danger, is a matter of fact about which minds of men might differ, and the question was for the jury.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Dale
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.