Marsh v. Herman’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1915
3 federal appellate · 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 Lindvall v. Woods · Fraser v. Red River Lumber Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An' important consideration, often overlooked, is whether the structure, appliance, or instrumentality is one which has been furnished for the work in "vvlii-'li the servants are io bo engaged, or whether the furnishing and preparation of it is ¡(self part of the work which they are employed to perform. If it bo the latter, then, as is well settled by our own decisions, tlie master is not liable.””
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.