Smoke v. Turner Const. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1993
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Santa Fe, Prescott & Phœnix Railway Co. v. Grant Bros. Construction Co. · The Fisheries Products Company, Receivers of the Fisheries Products Company v. Abraham S. See & Depew, Inc. · Santa Fe Prescott Phoenix Railway Company v. Grant Brothers Construction Company · Clarke v. Ames · 53 F. Supp. 625 - Geller v. Transamerica Corporation
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The magic words of the agreement fixing liability for an injured employee are ‘occurring in connection therewith’. * * * “If this agreement is held not to apply to Turner’s negligence, it means nothing, for Turner could he liable only for negligence. * * * “Struse strenuously argues that a construction that its undertaking applies to Turner’s negligence is unnatural for it would mean that it as a small subcontractor on the construction of one of the country’s larger modern hospitals would assume liability out of all proportion to the value of its contract. It may well be that this was, in truth, an unwise undertaking for Struse to assume, but that circumstance alone is not a persuasive argument against the bald fact that it did assume such a liability.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.