Conner v. Bragg’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Baggett Transportation Co. of Birmingham v. Dillon (1978), Immer and Company v. Brosnahan (1967)
84 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 McNicol's Case · Bradshaw v. Aronovitch · Southern Motor Lines Co. v. Alvis · Byrd v. Stonega Coke & Coal Co. · Dreyfus & Co. v. Meade
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n injury is compensable if it appears 'to have had its origin in a risk connected with the employment, and to have flowed from that source as a rational consequence.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n accident occurs in the “course of employment” when it takes place within the period of employment, at a place where the employee may be reasonably expected to be, and while he is reasonably fulfilling the duties of his employment or is doing something which is reasonably incidental thereto.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arising . . . in the course of the employment.”
2 later decisions 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.