McElligott v. Randolph’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably Perille v. Raybestos-Manhattan-Europe, Inc. (1985), Floyd v. Fruit Industries, Inc. (1957)
2 district · 39 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The work was one of some difficulty and required the exercise of mechanical skill. * * * These men [the laborers] were not skilled or trained in mechanical work. With competent instructions, oversight and direction, however, they were competent to perform the work. Otherwise they were incompetent.””
1 later decision 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.