Donovan's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Cardillo US v. Liberty Mut Ins Co (1947), Heaps v. Cobb (1945)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 · Feneff v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Boyle v. Columbian Fire Proofing Co. · Coakley's Case · McGuirk v. Shattuck
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . “the rule has been established . . . that the employer’s liability in such cases depends upon whether the conveyance has been provided by him after the real beginning of the employment, in compliance with one of the implied or express terms of the contract of employment, for the mere use of the employees, and is „one which the employees are required, or as a matter of right are permitted, to use by virtue of that contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.