Sherrillo v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably 42 Cal. 2d 682 - Burr v. Sherwin Williams Co. (1954), 69 Cal. 2d 452 - Woodcock v. Fontana Scaffolding & Equipment Co. (1968)
28 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 37 Cal. 2d 116 - Parker v. Womack · Jolley v. Clemens · 77 Cal. App. 2d 252 - People v. Carothers · 30 Cal. 2d 496 - Dodds v. Stellar · Adams v. Southern Pacific Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The average reasonably well-informed person who may be called to serve upon a jury knows that a workman injured in his employment received compensation. It is a delusion to think that this aspect of the case can be kept from the minds of the jurors simply by not alluding to it in the course of the trial. It is better that the jurors be fully instructed as to the law —that the plaintiff should be fully compensated according to the rules for ascertaining his damages without regard to compensation he may have received, since the insurance carrier; who paid his compensation will be reimbursed out of his judgment — than that the jurors, knoiving that the plaintiff has received some compensation, but not knowing or being uncertain as to the law applicable, should be left to speculate in the jury room as to the effect of their verdict.’’ (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions 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.