Sandy v. Stackhouse Incorporated’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably McNair v. Lend Lease Trucks, Inc. (1996), Perry v. American Bakeries Company (1964)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Rewis v. . Insurance Co. · Hardy v. Small · Bryan v. T. A. Loving Co. & Associates · Alford v. Quality Chevrolet Company · Hegler v. Cannon Mills 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an injury cannot fairly be traced to the employment as a contributing proximate cause, or if it comes from a hazard to which the employee would have been equally exposed apart from the employment, or from the hazard common to others, it does not arise out of the employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“engaged in the discharge of some function or duty which he [was] authorized to undertake and which [was] calculated to further, directly or indirectly, the master's business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether an accident arose out of the employment is a mixed question of law and fact.”
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.