Bell v. Dewey Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 1988 · most notably Jones v. Myrtle Desk Company (1965), Lewter v. Abercrombie Enterprises (1954)
33 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 Conrad v. Cook-Lewis Foundry Co. · Berry v. Colonial Furniture Co. · Withers v. Black · Withers v. Black · Taylor v. Town of Wake Forest
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Arising out of' means arising out of the work the employee is to do, or out of the service he is to perform. The risk must be incidental to the employment. Hunt v. State [ 201 N.C. 707 , 161 S.E. 203 ]; Berry v. Colonial Furniture Co. [ 232 N.C. 303 , 60 S.E.2d 97 ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment”
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.