Brown v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Lucas v. Lucas (1972), Dupper v. Liberty Mutual Insurance (1987)
58 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 Bountiful Brick Co. v. Giles · McNicol's Case · Conner v. Bragg · Reserve Life Insurance v. Hosey · State v. Hammonds
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhere is no concept of “instantaneous exit” from a place of employment immediately upon termination of work. . . . [Ejmployment includes not only the actual performance of the work, but also “a reasonable margin of time and space necessary to be used in passing to and from the place where the work is to be done.” . . . [I]f an employee sustains an injury while passing, with the express or implied consent of the employer, to or from his or her work by a way over the employer’s premises, “or over those of another in such proximity and relation as to be in practical effect a part of the employer’s premises,” the injury is as causally related to the employment as if it had been sustained while the employee was engaged in work at the place of its performance.”
5 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 incident thereto.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n injury "arises `out of' the employment, when there is apparent to the rational mind upon consideration of all the circumstances, a causal connection between the conditions under which the work is required to be performed and the resulting injury. Under this test, if the injury can be seen to have followed as a natural incident of the work and to have been contemplated by a reasonable person familiar with the whole situation as a result of the exposure occasioned by the nature of the employment, then it arises `out of' the employment."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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