Dillard v. Strecker’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably McCubbin Ex Rel. McCubbin v. Walker (1994), Fleck v. ANG Coal Gasification Co. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 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 Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Johnson v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · Van Arsdale v. Hollinger
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) If in any employment to which the workers compensation act applies, personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of employment is caused to an employee, the employer shall be liable to pay compensation to the employee in accordance with the provisions of the workers compensation act____ (b) Except as provided in the workers compensation act, no employer, or other employee of such employer, shall be liable for any injury for which compensation is recoverable under the workers compensation act nor shall an employer be liable to any third party for any injury or death of an employee which was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability against a third party and for which workers compensation is payable by such employer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) A landowner is not hable to an employee of an independent contractor covered by workers compensation for injury sustained as a result of the breach of a nondelegable duty imposed upon the landowner by statute or ordinance. “(2) The inherently dangerous activity exception to the nonliability of a landowner does not extend to employees of an independent contractor covered by workers compensation. “(3) Our decision is limited to the facts herein and to those instances where the injured employee of an independent contractor covered by workers compensation seeks to hold a landowner hable under the theories discussed in the opinion.” 255 Kan. at 726-27 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the fact that the economic system permits workers who presume to undertake dangerous work to bargain for an enhanced reward for assuming the danger.”
2 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.