Holmes's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2005
16 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 Sundine's Case · Von Ette's Case · White v. E. T. Slattery Co. · Bell's Case · Cusick's Case
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The scope of the employee’s employment was not strictly limited to the time he was actually engaged in his work. He is entitled to compensation for an injury received while he is on the premises of his employer doing what is necessarily incident to his work. Bell’s Case, 238 Mass. 46, 49 [ 130 N. E. 67 ], He was not actually working when injured, but having had his lunch during the noon hour and while sitting down he had some kind of a seizure and fell just about as he was ready to go to work and a short time before the power would start at one o’clock. In these circumstances it cannot be said as matter of law, that his injuries did not arise out of and in the course of his employment. “We are of opinion that the injury sustained while he was on the premises and waiting for the power to start so that he could resume his work could be found to have arisen out of and in the course of his employment as an incident of such 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.