Cunningham v. Journal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1936
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Huhn v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · O'Mellia v. Kansas City · Beasley v. Linehan Transfer Co. · Bohn v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. · Holt v. Southwest Missouri Electric Railway 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where plaintiff was injured by the breaking of machinery used.in hoisting an iron casting, and the break was a clean break, showing no indication of a previous weakening at the point where it occurred, and the same machinery had been used by defendant for the same purpose in lifting weights equal to the one which was being raised when it broke, and the machinery was of the kind generally used for that purpose, the accident was one which could not, with ordinary care, have been guarded against, and was a hazard incident to the business, which plaintiff thereby assumed.””
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.