Stryker v. . Cassidy’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1971 · most notably Moore-Mansfield Construction Co v. Indianapolis, Newcastle & Toledo Railway Co. (1913), Prager v. New Jersey Fidelity & Plate Glass Insurance Co. of Newark (1927)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is not any the less labor, within the general meaning of the word, that it is done by a person who is fitted by special training and skill for its performance. The language quoted makes no distinction between skilled and unskilled labor,” etc.”
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.