Soderburg v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad v. Duel · Olson v. McMurray Cedar Lumber Co. · Jennings v. Tacoma Railway & Motor Co. · Borden v. Daisy Roller Mill Co. · Chesson v. John L. Roper Lumber 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We must look to the conduct of the average prudent man for the standard of due care, and by that standard the duties and obligations of both the master and the servant must be measured and determined.””
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.