Smith v. Hecla Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1954
10 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 Armour v. Hahn · Jones v. Florence Mining Co. · Petaja v. Aurora Iron Mining Co. · Hoffman v. American Foundry Co. · Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. Pearcy
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is sufficient to say, however, that the law does not under any circumstances exact from the servant the use of diligence in ascertaining such defects, but charges him with knowledge of such only as are open to his observation; beyond this he has a right to assume without inquiry or investigation that his employer has discharged his duty of furnishing him with a reasonably safe place in which to perform his duties,””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The appellant seeks to invoke the rule in this case that it is the duty of the master to furnish the servant with a safe place in which to work. This rule, however, has no application to this class of employment. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Logan v. Day
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.