Holmes v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1993
5 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 Abbott v. Parker · Atchison v. May · Brownfield v. Southern Amusement Co. · Colorado v. Johnson Iron Works, Ltd. · Tugwell v. Members of the Board of Highways
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The law is settled that the benefits provided by the Workmen's Compensation Act are due only to the injured employee, or to certain designated dependents in case of his death from injury. The relief granted is personal to the injured employee when his injury does not result in death, and in such a case he alone has the right to enforce the payment of compensation benefits by his employer or the latter's insurer. Brownfield v. Southern Amusement Company, 196 La. 73 , 198 So. 656 (1940); Atchison v. May, 201 La. 1003 , 10 So.2d 785 (1942); Colorado v. Johnson Iron Works, 146 La. 68 , 83 So. 381 (1919); State v. Rapides Parish School Board, 227 La. 290 , 79 So.2d 312 (1955)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The theory upon which the workmen's compensation legislation is founded is that compensation for injuries received in the course of employment is due only to the injured employee and to certain designated dependents in case of his death from injury ... "The relief is purely statutory and is solely for the benefit of and personal to the injured employee or his dependents. Under the terms of the statute, only the employee or his dependents have the right to enforce the liability for compensation imposed by law upon the employer. If the employee be a married woman, as is the case before us, the right to compensation is personal to her. It is a property right belonging to her, for which she alone, during her lifetime, may sue to recover."”
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.