Bountiful Brick Co. v. Giles’s Empirical Analysis
276 U.S. 154 · 1928
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 15 district · 299 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 426 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Tennessee Coal Iron Co v. Muscoda Local No 123 Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co (1944), Voehl v. Indemnity Ins Co of North America (1933)
66 federal appellate · 15 district · 299 state decisions — followed in 33 states
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 Cudahy Packing Co of Nebraska v. Parramore · Ward & Gow v. Krinsky · Sundine's Case · Claim of De Voe v. New York State Railways
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 426 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If the employee be injured while passing, with the express or implied consent of the employer, to or from his work by a way over the employer's premises, or over those of another in such proximity and relation as to be in practical effect a part of the employer's premises, the injury is one arising out of and in the course of the employment as much as though it had happened while the employee was engaged in his work at the place of its performance."”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arise out of and in the course of the 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.