Ransom v. Haner’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1982
5 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 905 · 33 U.S.C. § 933
Relies on Warner v. Leder · Bresnahan v. Barre · Schumacher v. Leslie · Schumacher v. Leslie · Zimmer v. Casey
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the injury for which compensation is payable hereunder was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in someone other than the employer to pay damages in respect thereof, the employee may take proceedings against the one so liable to pay damages and against anyone liable to pay compensation under this Act, but shall not be entitled to receive both damages and compensation * * (Emphasis added.) 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ransom v. Haner
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.