Superior Builders, Inc. v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Breitenbach v. N.B. Handy Co. (2001), Philip Electronics North America v. Wright (1997)
42 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 Larkin v. Smith · Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc. v. Rosenthal · Harvey v. George J. Roche & Son · Havre De Grace Fireworks Co. v. Howe · Martin G. Imbach, Inc. v. Tate
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall have no application to this article; but this article shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose.” The Preamble to Article 101 identifies this general purpose — to provide for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[Questions of dependency, in whole, or in part, shall be determined by the Commission in accordance with the facts * * * existent at the time of the injury resulting in death * *”
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.