Robinson v. Lytle’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1978
13 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 Louisville Home Telephone Co. v. Gasper · Cook v. Massey · Nunan v. Bennett · Barres v. Watterson Hotel Co. · Bykle v. District Court of Watonwan County
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * we must look to the philosophy of the Compensation Act in arriving- at its proper construction. It was the intention of that Act to place the burden for injuries received upon the industries in which they were suffered rather than upon a society as a whole.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Since ‘agricultural pursuit’ has been held to ‘include every process and step taken and necessary to the completion of a finished farm product’ (Cook v. Massey, 38 Idaho 264, 220 P. 1088, 1091 , 35 A. L. R. 200), and ‘ “agriculture” covers all things ordinarily done by the farmer and his servants incidental to the carrying on of his branch of industry’ (Warner v. Longstreth, 108 Pa. Super. 124 , 164 A. 806 ), and ‘ “Agricultural laborers” [is] a term broader and more comprehensive than “farm laborers”;’ (Davis v. Industrial Commission of Utah, 59 Utah 607 , 206 P. 267, 269 ), it can be readily seen that the boundary extends further in some cases than in others, and that “agriculture” is the broadest exclusion. In Keefover v. Vasey, 112 Neb. 424 , 199 N. W. 799 , 35 A. L. R. 191, the court said [page 801]: “ ‘There is some discussion . . . upon a supposed distinction between one engaged in agricultural pursuits and one engaged in farm labor. Such a distinction doubtless exists in the sense that one who is engaged in the pursuit of agriculture may not neces sarily be a farm laborer, but it is quite evident that every farm laborer is engaged in an agricultural pursuit. . . . ’ ” (Italics mine.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.