Bell's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Bountiful Brick Co. v. Giles (1928), Opinion of the Justices to the Senate & the House of Representatives (1925)
35 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 McNicol's Case · Sundine's Case · White v. E. T. Slattery Co. · Wright v. Boston & Albany Railroad · Brown's Case
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [an employee] is injured on the public street, he does not come within the benefit of the act, unless his work is of a kind which is pursued on the highway and he is engaged at the time of the accident in the actual work for which he is employed, and not merely using the highway in the exercise of the public right of passage”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“arising out of or in the course of his 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.