Peck v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Wood v. Kane Boiler Works, Inc. (1951), Gulf Oil Corporation v. Mrs. Eva Wright and the Standard Insurance Company, Intervener (1956)
5 federal appellate · 39 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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“run the risk of misleading juries, on the one hand, into imposing upon the servant the duty of the master, or, on the other, into exempting the servant, in doing his work, from the observance of that care which every man is expected to use in looking out for his safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is conceded that it was no part of plaintiff's duty to inspect or see to the condition of the elevator and its attachments.”
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.