Readinger v. Gottschall’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably 81 Ill. 2d 229 - Collier v. Wagner Castings Co. (1980), 548 F. Supp. 357 - Neal v. Carey Canadian Mines, Ltd. (1982)
15 federal appellate · 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 Lacey v. Washburn & Williams Co. · McCauley v. Imperial Woolen Co. · Mauchline v. State Insurance Fund · Heskett v. Fisher Laundry & Cleaners Co. · Jerominski v. Fowler, Dick & Walker
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the injury is the result of an accident in the course of the employment, the Workmen’s Compensation Act by its term bars any recovery in trespass with certain exceptions. Nothing is said about an injury intentionally inflicted by the employer ... ... The word “accident” itself is nowhere defined in the act but its language, covering only injury or death “by an accident” indicates no intention that deliberate injury to an employee by his employer is intended to be covered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The term “injury arising in the course of his employment,” as used in this article, shall not include an injury caused by an act of a third person intended to injure the employe because of reasons personal to him, and not directed against him as an employe or because of his employment; but shall include all other injuries sustained while the employe is actually engaged in the furtherance of the business or affairs of the employer, whether upon the employer’s premises or elsewhere____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but shall include all other injuries sustained while the employee is actually engaged in the furtherance of the business or affairs of the employer, * * * and shall include all injuries caused by the condition of the premises or by the operation of the employer's business * * *.”
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.