Hanley v. Mulleneaux’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2019
3 federal appellate · 12 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 Brenner v. Brenner · Lanasa v. Beggs · Booth v. Irving National Exchange Bank · Gunther ex rel. Gunther v. Lee · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Taylor
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to prevent advantage being taken of a claimant's possible ignorance of his rights or of his best interests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““One purpose of the enactment of the Workmen’s Compensation Act was to relieve the State and the taxpayers from the necessity of caring for those injured in extra-hazardous work ... and the achievement of this purpose, as well as the proper care of those so injured, made it necessary to prevent the parties from making their own settlements without supervision by an agency of the State.””
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.