McWilliams v. Parham’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Rosas v. Buddies Food Store (1975), Rutter v. Northeastern Beaver County School District (1981)
6 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
Relies on Warner v. Leder · Lewis v. Barnhill · Essick v. City of Lexington · Weaver v. Bennett · Getz v. Freed
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assumption of risk is not available as a defense to one not in a contractual relationship to the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Employer to secure payment of compensation. — Every employer who accepts the compensation provisions of this article shall secure the payment of compensation to his employees in the manner hereinafter provided; and while such security remains in force, he or those conducting his business shall only be liable to any employee who elects to come under this article for personal injury or death by accident to the extent and in the manner herein specified.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * [I]t was long ago settled that the defense of assumption of risk is not available in this state to a defendant in a common-law tort action such as this.”
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.