Gargiulo v. Gargiulo’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Howard v. Harwood's Restaurant Co. (1957), Tocci v. Tessler & Weiss, Inc. (1959)
48 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 Geltman v. Reliable Linen & Supply Co. · Spence v. Maier · Spindler v. Universal Chain Corp. · Hall v. Doremus · Harvey v. Caddo De Soto Cotton Oil 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * It was a necessary antecedent in that the injured employee would not have been where he was had he not been engaged in his appointed task. It brought him unwittingly into the line of fire of the arrow, where he would not have been except for his employment. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A liberal construction should be given to the Workmen's Compensation Act in order to alleviate consequences of personal injuries caused by employment and to effect a measure of economic security for the workmen so injured and to place the burden thereof on industry.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There must be a causal relation between the injury and the conditions under which the work was required to be done. But foreseeability of the injury is not the test. It need not have been expected. Rather, it suffices if the injury has its origin in a risk connected with the employment and flows from that source as a rational consequence. * * *”
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.