Geis v. Hodgman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• in personal injury action by servant against master not covered by compensation acts or statutes imposing a duty on the employer for benefit of the employee, the common law still governs, and the defense of assumption of risk is available to the employer
• applying assumption of risk in master/servant context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Peterson v. WT Rawleigh Company
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1966-07-29· cited 42×
• Coenen v. Buckman Building Corporation
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1967-09-29· cited 25×
• Knutson v. Arrigoni Brothers Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1966-12-23· cited 24×
• Rausch v. Julius B. Nelson and Sons, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1967-02-03· cited 18×
• Schneider Ex Rel. Schneider v. Erickson
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2002-12-17· cited 17×
• Erickson v. Van Web Equipment Company
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1965-01-29· cited 16×
• Hollinbeck v. Downey
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1962-01-19· cited 16×
• Hacker v. Berkner
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1962-07-27· cited 9×
• Hedglin v. Church of St. Paul of Sauk Centre
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1968-04-11· cited 6×
• Dawes v. McKenna
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1965-12-14· cited 6×
• Hansen v. City of Minneapolis
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1962-02-02· cited 5×
• Cogswell v. U. S. S. Yorktown Post 178, VFW
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1966-05-13· cited 4×
• Peterson v. Modjeski
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1962-08-17· cited 2×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rase v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1909-03-05· cited 54×
• Rothenberger v. Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1894-06-12· cited 25×
• Syverson v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1955-06-03· cited 14×
• Schlitz v. Pabst Brewing Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1894-05-24· cited 14×
• Brown v. Musser-Sauntry Land, Logging & Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1908-05-01· cited 5×
• Matthiesen v. Adrian
  New York Court of Appeals· 1954-01-15· cited 3×