90 Wash. 2d 342 - Davis v. Niagara MacHine Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2000
22 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 29 U.S.C. § 653 (§ 4 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970)
Relies on Jeter v. St. Regis Paper Co. · 49 Wash. 2d 363 - Milone & Tucci, Inc. v. Bona Fide Builders, Inc. · 77 Wash. 2d 800 - Wells v. City of Vancouver · 83 Wash. 2d 871 - Wilber Development Corp. v. Les Rowland Constr., Inc. · 83 Ind. App. 488 - Western Oil Refining Co. v. Underwood
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“WARNING To prevent serious bodily injury Never place any part of your body under the slide (ram) or within the die area unless power is off, flywheel is stopped and the slide (ram) is blocked up. Never operate, install dies or maintain this machine without proper instruction and without first reading and understanding the operator's or machine manual. It is the employer's responsibility to implement the above and also to provide proper dies, guards, devices or means that may be necessary or required for any particular use, operation, set-up or service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an agreement of the parties arrived at from their acts and conduct viewed in the light of surrounding circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“extends only to persons in the class intended to be protected by the statute or regulation.”
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.