Breen v. Caesars Palace’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Charlie Brown Construction Co. v. City of Boulder City (1990), Canfora v. Coast Hotels & Casinos, Inc. (2005)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 Bullock v. United States · United States v. Lorenzetti · 27 Cal. 2d 716 - Heaton v. Kerlan · Welfare Division of the Nevada State Department of Health v. Washoe County Welfare Department · State Industrial Insurance System v. Jesch
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n any case where the insurer . . . is subrogated to the rights of the injured employee . . . the insurer . . . has a lien upon the total proceeds of any recovery from some person other than the employer, whether the proceeds of such recovery are by way of judgment, settlement or otherwise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he employer’s lien should extend to only those expenses attributable to the medical aggravation of the injury; i.e. that the amount of the lien should be limited to the amount that the employer is required to pay because of the malpractice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is unquestionably the purpose of worker's compensation laws 'to provide economic assistance to persons who suffer disability or death as a result of their employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.