Bennett v. E. W. Backus Lumber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1939
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Perry v. Miller · Christian v. City of Minneapolis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute is a remedial one, and must be construed with reasonable liberality. To limit it, by construction, to the general officers of the corporation, as claimed by the defendant, would defeat the purpose of the statute; for, as a rule, such general officers have no personal knowledge as to what occurs in the actual work of the corporation. The statute includes any officer, superintendent, or agent having supervision or control of the work or act of the corporation involved in the case, whether his rank be that of a general officer •or not.””
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.