Blair v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Kindel v. Ferco Rental, Inc. (1995), Taylor v. Centex Construction Co. (1963)
37 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 Rush v. Empire Oil & Refining Co. · Hilyard v. Lohmann-Johnson Drilling Co. · Kearns v. Reed · Pearson v. Electric Service Co. · Covert v. John Morrell & 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Having concluded that the trip to Pittsburg to take the examination was a part of the employment, it seems entirely logical to conclude that the entire underaking is to be considered from a unitary standpoint rather than divisible. To take the examination it was necessary for decedents to make the round trip to Pittsburg. That involved travel by private autombilé—going and returning—one project, so to speak, and included the normal traffic hazards inherent in such an undertaking. The act does not require that the injury be sustained on or about the employer’s premises . . . “. . . we hold that under all of the facts and circumstances of the case, the lower court was correct in ruling that the trip, to Pittsburg to take the examination was an integral part of the employment, and that at the time and place in question decedents had not left the duties of such employment . . .” (1. c. 529, 530.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is true that in passing the examination benefit would accrue to the mechanic, but it is also true that it resulted in considerable benefit to the employer. In this day and age such matters are of common knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is generally recognized that a mechanic who has passed these tests is better able to secure employment, and, at the same time, the employer is thus able to advertise that it has “factory-trained mechanics.””
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.