Brown v. Transcon Lines’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 24 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Sheets v. Teddy's Frosted Foods, Inc. (1980), Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. (1980)
15 federal appellate · 24 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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Most-quoted passages
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“[I]t may well be that we would conclude that the provisions of ORS ch 659, as they now exist subsequent to the amendments enacted by the Oregon legislature in 1977 ... not only provide adequate remedies to an employee such as plaintiff, but, by necessary implication, show a legislative intent to abrogate or supersede any previously existing common law remedy for damages, even though the legislature might not then have been aware of the existence of such a remedy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a general rule, if a statute which provides for a new remedy shows no intention to negate, either expressly or by necessary implication, a pre-existing common law remedy, the new remedy will be regarded as merely cumulative, rather than exclusive, with the result that a plaintiff may resort to either the pre-existing remedy or the new remedy. (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“adequate to protect both the interests of society * * * and the interests of employees * * *.”
2 later decisions 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.