Dunn v. Brimer’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Wendland v. Ridgefield Construction Services, Inc. (1981), Ball v. Melsur Corp. (1993)
4 federal appellate · 22 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970)
Relies on Marshall v. Isthmian Lines, Inc. · Tatum v. Rester · Tatum v. Resteb
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the statute does set up standard precautions, although only for the protection of a different class of persons, or the prevention of a distinct risk, this may be a relevant fact, having proper bearing upon the conduct of a reasonable man under the circumstances, which the jury should be permitted to consider.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall be fastened and that the area below them shall be kept clean.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“without regard to any employer-employee relationship”
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.