Wright v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 1980
22 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 George v. Miller & Smith, Inc. · Heirich v. Howe · Jones v. International Minerals Chemical 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Actually, the safety statute itself makes the case one of negligence— negligent failure of the employer to supply reasonable safety devices ‘in general use’ for the protection of the workmen. * * *””
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.