5 E.H. Smith 417 - Kimmer v. . Weber’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 1935 · most notably 11 E.H. Smith 251 - Perry v. . Rogers (1898), Caddy v. . Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (1909)
8 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Cullen v. . Norton · Cregan v. . Marston · Harley v. Buffalo Car Manufacturing Co. · Hussey v. . Coger · Hankins v. . N.Y., L.E. W.R.R. 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a gang of masons are engaged in plastering or painting a room, the construction of proper platforms or places upon which to stand while doing the work is a detail of the business that is generally left to the men themselves. The master may, it is true, take this out of their hands, and assume to do it himself, and in that case he would be bound to furnish an appliance reasonably safe and suitable for the purpose.””
2 later decisions 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.