Wilhelm v. Krogers’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Tryon v. Saturn Corp. (2008), Anderson v. Westfield Group (2008)
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 Orman v. Williams Sonoma, Inc. · Fink v. Caudle · Thornton v. RCA Service Co. · Perrin v. Gaylord Entertainment Co. · Travelers Insurance Company v. Googe
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Tennessee courts have consistently held that an employee may not recover for an injury occurring while walking unless there is an employment hazard, such as a puddle of water or a step, in addition to the employee's ambulation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some diseases or other idiopathic condition personal to the employee, absent some special hazard of the employment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the injury occurred. The important question for purposes of compensability is whether the injury arose primarily out of the employment or was idiopathic in nature. In workers' compensation cases, benefits have generally not been allowed where the cause of an injury has been found to be due to”
3 later decisions 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.