Lee Way Motor Freight, Inc. v. Yellow Transit Freight Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
251 F.2d 97 · 1957
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably United Air Lines, Inc. v. Wiener (1964), Security Insurance v. Johnson (1960)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 United States v. Standard Oil Co. · Builders Supply Co. v. McCabe · George's Radio, Inc. v. Capital Transit Co. · Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. v. Compania Transatlantica Espanola · Insurance Company v. Brame
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) An injured worker must elect which liability to pursue first, whether to take compensation under the Act or pursue his remedy against the third party; (2) An injured employee who files a claim for compensation must assign the cause of action against the third party defendant to the employers insurance carrier; (3) If the worker elects to proceed against the third party the employer’s carrier shall contribute only a deficiency, if any, between the amount of recovery against such other person actually collected, and the compensation provided or estimated by the Workers’ Compensation Act; and, (4) Any compromise of a cause of action by the worker for an amount less than the compensation provided by the Workers’ Compensation Act shall be made only with the written approval of the Workers’ Compensation Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"* * * Indemnity is a right which enures to a person who has discharged a duty which is owed by him but which as between himself and another should have been discharged by the other. It implies a primary liability in one person, although a second person is also liable to a third party. Some benefit must have accrued to the indemnitor, the person primarily liable. goose oe»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of this section is to prevent a double recovery by the injured employee.”
1 later decision 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.