Robinson v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1964 · most notably Griffin v. Catherine Sugar Co. (1951), Collins v. Spielman (1942)
26 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 Shipp v. Bordelon · Robichaux v. Realty Operators, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our conclusion therefore is that the case is governed by the Employers' Liability Act and hence that the judgment of the district court is correct and should be reinstated and affirmed.”
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.