Barber v. . Minges’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Morrison v. Burlington Industries (1981), Hogan v. Cone Mills Corp. (1985)
3 federal appellate · 34 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 Kennerson v. Thames Towboat Co. · Boyer v. Crescent Paper Box Factory, Inc. · Stakonis v. United Advertising Corporation · Conrad v. Cook-Lewis Foundry Co. · Mackin v. Detroit-Timkin Axle Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compel industry to take care of its own wreckage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"The incidence of the law is on the status created by the contract of employment. It deals with the incidents and risks of that employment, in which concededly is included the negligence of the employer in that relation. . It has no application outside the field of industrial accident; and does not intend, by its' general terms, to take away common law or other rights which pertain to the parties only as members of the general public, disconnected with the employment. ‘The relation of master and servant and their mutual rights and liabilities- is the primary concern of the compensation acts. * * * (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Carried to its logical extreme, this would confer immunity from liability upon an employer who inflicts a negligent injury on an employee while the latter is not engaged in any activity of his employment and is far from the scene of his duties, while he is on the way to the grocer or to church, or wherever he has the right to be in the pursuit of his own affairs. The contention is too sweeping to merit serious attention except for the fact that counsel for defense cite certain decisions of this Court which have been recognized as having that significance. Pilley v. Cotton Mills, 201 N.C., 426 , 160 S.E., 479 ; Francis v. Wood Turning Co., 208 N.C., 517 , 181 S.E., 628 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.