Kohlmayer v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Fisher v. Mayfield (1990), Ruckman v. Cubby Drilling, Inc. (1998)
68 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 Devereaux v. Smith · Ricciardi v. Damar Products Co. · Marlow v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · Stakonis v. United Advertising Corporation · Sica v. Retail Credit 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Improved employee relationships which can, and usually do, result from the association of employees in a recreational setting produce a more harmonious working atmosphere. Better service and greater interest in the job on the part of the employees are its outgrowths. The expense of the picnic may furnish the basis for an income tax deduction as a business expense. Tangible business benefits are even more likely to be realized where, as here, a small business is involved. "Thus, business-related benefits, even though not immediately measurable, which may be expected to flow to the employer from sponsoring a purely social event for his employees, are sufficiently related to the performance of the required duties of the employees, so that it is `correct to say that the Legislature intended the enterprise to bear the risk of injuries incidental to that company event.'" 263 N.E.2d at 233 (citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“while attending a picnic which [was] sponsored, supervised and paid for by the employer, and which was given by the employer for the purpose of generating friendly relations with his employees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]n injured employee need not be in the actual performance of his duties in order for his injury to be in the `course of 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.