Simon v. Hamilton Logging Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1977
8 federal appellate · 8 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 Wharton v. Warner · Green v. Western American Co. · Wells v. Ferry-Baker Lumber Co. · Dossett v. St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. · Conover v. Neher-Ross 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'“This court had held that a company employing a surgeon for the benefit of its men and without profit to itself, is not liable in any event, but that the measure of its duty is to exercise reasonable care in the selection of a competent surgeon. Wells v. Ferry-Baker Lumber Co., 57 Wash. 658 , 107 Pac. 869 , 29 L. R. A. (N. S.) 426; Wharton v. Warner, 75 Wash. 470 , 135 Pac. 235 . Although we are invited to review and distinguish our own cases 'and to declare the contrary rule, we think the one announced is supported by reason as well as the better authority, and have determined to adhere to it without reopening the discussion.””
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.