fellow-servant doctrine
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 319 U.S. 715 - Owens v. Union Pacific Railroad · 1943Most cited · 66 citing opinions
the fellow-servant doctrine contemplated that an employee knew and assumed, when he accepted employment, the risks which negligence of his fellow employees might create. It was in fact a branch of assumption of risk.
How often courts cite the case defining “fellow-servant doctrine”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “fellow-servant doctrine” — 66 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.