Apodaca v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Mascarenas v. Kennedy (1964), Romero v. H. A. Lott, Inc. (1962)
36 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 Crocker v. Johnston · Sundt v. Tobin Quarries, Inc. · United States v. Stanolind Crude Oil Purchasing Co. · State v. Stewart · Williams v. Engler
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act here involved was passed to compel employers to supply reasonable safety devices in general use for the protection of the workman where safety devices are not specified by law. -Only . by observing it may employers avoid liability under it for compensable injuries to. their employees. It is negligence to fail to do so if the facts render the act applicable. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baca v. Gutierrez““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. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baca v. Gutierrez““ ‘General use’ means a common use known to the Defendants or which in the exercise of ordinary care should have been known to them.””
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.