Baird v. Reilly’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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.

1. ““An employer Is not relieved from responsibility to an employé, wbo has been injured in consequence of his failure to make the working place reasonably safe, by proof that he employed a competent superintendent or foreman, supplied him with the necessary appliances, and gave him all needful instructions for the purpose. He cannot escape responsibility by delegating his duty in this behalf to another, because it is his implied contract with the employé that he will see to it that the working place is reasonably safe, in view of the character of the work to be performed, and this obligation is not satisfied by devolving it upon a subordinate.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Toledo Brewing & Malting Co. v. Bosch · Western Electric Co. v. Hanselmann

2. ““When, however, it appears that the working place originally, and when the emplojé was sent to do the work there, was reasonably safe, but became unsafe at the particular time of the accident by causes that could not have been anticipated, by exigencies created in carrying on the details of the work, or by the neglect of a fellow servant, a different rule is applicable.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grace & Hyde Co. v. Kennedy