Ruble v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2005
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Owensboro Undertaking & Livery Ass'n v. Henderson · Klingenfus v. Dunaway · Story v. Burgess · Kaufman v. Peter-Burghard Stone Co. · Wright v. O'Neal
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A master is not liable to a servant or sub-servant who, while acting within the scope of his employment or in connection therewith, is injured solely by the negligence of a fellow servant in the performance of acts not involving a violation of the master's non-delegable duties, unless the servant was coerced or deceived into serving, was too young to appreciate the risks, or was employed in violation of statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * the law in this state is that when work-connected dangers are ob vious and the employee voluntarily performs the task ‘and where there is no showing of negligence on the part of the master the servant may not recover for an injury he sustains.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robbins v. Shepherd
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.