Ice v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2006
13 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 Lone Star Gas Co. v. Parsons · Wilson Co., Inc. v. Musgrave · Claremont Country Club v. Industrial Accident Commission · Hogan v. State Industrial Commission · Farrin v. State Industrial Accident Commission
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . A great number of such employments are there listed. Among them appears, simply, the word ‘wells, and same has repeatedly been construed by this court as including oil wells. The statute does not describe or limit the nature .or kind of work in connection with wells (except that by the succeeding section it must be manual or mechanical work), and so we have held that a workman engaged in firing boilers used in connection with the drilling of a well is protected by the act. Oklahoma Company et al. v. State Industrial Commission, 149 Okla. 18 , 298 P. 1051 . If firing boilers used in connection with the drilling of a well is covered by the act, then it is difficult to perceive why working with a water line or any other instrumentality directly connected with the operation of a well, after it has been drilled, is not equally within the act...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“T7 There is no doubt that: ... If an employer has failed to secure the payment of compensation for his injured employee, as provided for in this title, an injured employee, ..., may maintain an action in the courts for damages on account of such injury, and in such action the defendant may not plead or prove as a defense that the injury was caused by the negligence of a fellow servant, or that the employee assumed the risk of his employment, or that the injury was due to the contributory negligence of the employ-eay....”
1 later decision 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.