Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hough v. Railway Co. · Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Laack · Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Buck · Laning v. . N.Y.C.R.R. Co. · Settle v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The master is bound to provide his servants with a reasonably safe place in which to work, with reasonably safe machinery, tools, and appliances with which to work, with reasonably safe material upon which to work, and suitable and competent fellow servants. When the master has so discharged these duties, then at common law the servant assumes all the risks and hazards incident to the particular employment or to the performance of the particular work, including those risks and hazards resulting from the negligence and carelessness of his fellow servants. Neely v. Southwestern Cotton Seed Oil Co., 13 Okla. 356 , 75 Pac. 537 , 64 L. R. A. 145; McCabe & Steen Construction Co. v. Wilson, 17 Okla. 355 , 87 Pac. 320 ; Coalgate Co. v. Hurst, 25 Okla. 588 , 107 Pac. 657 ; Choctaw Electric Co. v. Clark, 28 Okla. 399 , 114 Pac. 730; Frederick Cotton Oil Co. v. Traver, 36 Okla. 717 , 129 Pac. 747 ; Dewey Portland Cement Co. v. Blunt, 38 Okla. 182 , 132 Pac. 659 ; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. Co. v. Duran, 38 Okla. 719 , 134 Pac. 876 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A servant has the right to assume, in the absence of knowledge to. the contrary that the master has discharged its duty in providing and maintaining reasonably safe and suitable machinery, and hence is under no obligation to; inspect the machinery for latent defects.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““So that the liability of defendant did not terminate upon its furnishing to the plaintiff in a safe condition the engine upon which he was employed, but it was its further and equally positive duty to keep said engine in a reasonably safe condition.””
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.