Wells v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1916 · most notably Thayer v. Denver & Rio Grande R. R. (1916), Moffatt v. Tenney (1892)
33 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 Hough v. Railway Co. · Wabash Ry Co v. McDaniels · Ford v. Fitchburg Railroad · Wright v. . New York Central Railroad Company · Hayden v. Smithville Manufacturing 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““First. In the purchase of safe machinery and appliances for use in his business, the master is required to exercise ordinary care and diligence; such care and diligence having reference to the hazards of the employment, and being proportioned to the dangers of the service. If, through the want of ordinary care in this respect, unsafe or defective machinery is procured, and the servant, without fault on his part, is thereby injured, the master is liable. Colorado Cent. R. R. v. Ogden, 3 Colo., 499 ; Beach, Neg., sec. 123. Second. The master is likewise charged with the further duty of maintaining in suitable condition the machinery and appliances used in his business. In this regard he is also required to exercise ordinary care and diligence, and is liable for injuries, resulting from his ordinary negligence, to the servant, without fault on the latter’s part; the question as to what shall constitute such ordinary care having reference likewise to the danger which the service naturally imposes upon the employee. Hough v. Railway Co., 100 U. S., 213 ; Beach, Neg., sec. 124.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where injury is suffered by an employee, through defects in the machinery and appliances furnished by his employer and used in the business, if the employee knew, or had means of knowledge equal to that of his employer, concerning such defects, yet continued in the latter’s service, he cannot recover; provided no inducement, such as a promise to remove the defect, and thus remove the danger, led him to remain. ’ ’”
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.