imminent danger
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 239 U.S. 595 - Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · 1916Most cited · 72 citing opinions
assumption of risk exception
To relieve the employer from responsibility for injuries that may befall the employee while remaining at his work in reliance upon a promise of reparation, there must be something more than knowledge by the employee that danger confronts him, or that it is constant. The danger must be imminent,—immediately threatening,—so as to render it clearly imprudent for him to confront it, even in the line of duty, pending the promise.
How often courts cite the case defining “imminent danger”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “imminent danger” — 70 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.