Brannon v. Zurich General Accident & Liability Ins. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
188 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions — most recently September 1985 · most notably Lucas v. Ins. Co. of North America (1977), Reed v. Calcasieu Paper Company (1957)
188 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 Wright v. National Surety Corp. · Knispel v. Gulf States Utilities Co. · Carlino v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Stieffel v. Valentine Sugars, Inc. · Morgan v. American Bitumuls 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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the light of the facts in the instant case the plaintiff is, in our opinion, permanently and totally disabled within the meaning and contemplation of this law. The law does not expect, and it does not contemplate, that a worker, in order to make a living, must work in pain, or that he do so when it will materially increase not only the hazards to his own health and safety, but also to those of his fellow employees. This is the settled jurisprudence of all of the appellate courts of this state. * * *" (Many cases cited.)”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“`there is no market for the services of such a carpenter.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“injury producing permanent total disability to do work of any reasonable character,”
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.