Jones v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘ “The servant assumes all the ordinary risks of the service and all of the extraordinary risks — i. e., those due to the master’s negligence — of which he knows and the dangers of which he appreciates.” “ ‘This is a comprehensive statement of the rule which thus qualified the general rule that it is the duty of the master to provide a reasonably safe place for the servant to work.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thompson v. Dale