Friend v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
220 F.2d 820 · 1955
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2000 · most notably Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Greenwich Collieries (1994), Wheatley v. Adler (1968)
73 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc. · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Cardillo · Jacobson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our review must also take account of the settled rule that the Act is to be construed with a view to its beneficent purposes. Doubts, including the factual, are to be resolved in favor of the employee or his dependent family.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he fact that an employee is diseased does not bar his right to recover for accidental injury notwithstanding, except for such diseased condition, the injury would not have occurred,”
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.