Sullivan's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Ossic v. Verde Central Mines (1935), Matter of Jordan v. . Decorative Co. (1921)
39 state decisions — followed in 11 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 · Donovan's Case · Gillen's Case
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He is deprived of the benefit which the statute promises to him if he is told that because he could do some work if lie could get it, lie is not under an incapacity for work, although by reason of his injury he can obtain no opportunity to work. ’ ’”
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.