King v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1994
15 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 Anderson v. Fielding · Olmscheid v. Nelson-Tenney Lumber 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The servant, to be chargeable with knowledge of a defect in the machinery with which he works, must not only know the physical fact in relation thereto, but he must also know and appreciate the danger resulting therefrom.” (King v. King, 79 Kan. 584, 587 , 100 Pac. 503 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A mechanical device may, of course, be so simple that any person of ordinary intelligence can judge of its effect in actual operation as well as a trained machinist.” (p. 586.)”
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.