Lucas v. Biller’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Morrison v. Bestler (1990), Porter v. Com. (2008)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 54 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 Feitig v. Chalkley · Rea, Administratrix v. Ford · Floyd v. Mitchell · Humphreys v. Commonwealth · Nolde Bros. v. Chalkley
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was an independent contractor or a fellow-servant of the plaintiff. . . . The purpose of the [Workers’] Compensation Act is to limit recovery to all persons engaged in the business of the employer to compensation under the Act and to deny an injured person the right of recovery against any other person unless he is a stranger to the business.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by consent of the parties, waiver or estoppel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a general rule accidental injuries suffered by an employee while going to and from work are not covered by the Workmen’s Compensation Act; however, one of the recognized exceptions to this rule is that when the employee is furnished transportation to or from his work by the employer and is accidentally injured during the course of travel, the injury arises out of and in the course of his employment and is compensable under the Act.”
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.