Stevens v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably Reliance Insurance Company v. Louisiana Land and Exploration Company Cbs Louisiana Land and Exploration Company (1997), Redding v. Cade (1963)
50 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 Kline v. Dawson · 72 So. 2d 895 - Smith v. Crossett Lumber Co. · 90 So. 2d 508 - Carpenter v. Madden · Moll v. Mutual Health Ben. & Acc. Ass'n · Williams v. George
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where any person (in this section referred to as principal) undertakes to execute any work, which is a part of his trade, business, or occupation or which he had contracted to perform, and contracts with any person (in this section referred to as contractor) for the execution by or under the contractor of the whole or any part of the work undertaken by the principal, the principal shall be liable to pay to any employee employed in the execution of the work or to his dependent, any compensation under this Chapter which he would have been liable to pay if the employee had been immediately employed by him * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No policy of insurance against liability under this Chapter shall be made unless the policy covers the entire liability of the employer * * # ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]ll defenses that can be urged against the insured are likewise available against [the insurer].”
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.