Hamilton v. Doty’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Sturgeon v. Clark (1961), Barksdale Lumber Co. v. McAnally (1977)
38 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 Northern Pacific Railroad v. Urlin · Lipe v. Bradbury · Flippo v. Martin · Apodaca v. Allison · Northern Pac Co v. Urlin
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In case an injury to * * * a workman results from his failure * * to use a safety device provided by his employer, then the compensation otherwise payable under the Workmen’s Compensation Act shall be reduced by fifty (50%) per centum. * * * If an injury to * * * a workman results from the negligence of the employer in failing to supply reasonable safety devices in general use for the use or protection of the workman, then the compensation otherwise payable under the Workmen’s Compensation Act shall be increased by fifty (50%) per centum.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We think the term ‘in general use’ manifests a clear legislative intent to completely eliminate any contention or controversy as to whether some other device may be substituted. To avoid liability under the Act, the device provided must be one generally used in the particular industry.””
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.