Ferrell v. Beddow’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1997
2 district · 18 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 Bradley v. Commonwealth · Kent v. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. · In re Ayers · Phillips v. Brinkley · Sullivan v. Suffolk Peanut Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The Act] deprives the employee or his personal representative of a common law right of action for damages against the employer in a particular class of cases, that is, where the injury or death is from an accident arising out of and in the course of the employment because the Act gives to the employee or his dependents in lieu thereof the right to an award of compensation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[bjroadly defined, it may be taken as authoritatively settled that 'out of and in the course of his employment' covers those accidents which befall an employee while he is discharging some duty he is authorized or directed to perform for the furtherance, directly or indirectly, of his employer’s business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Carawan
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.