Voehl v. Indemnity Ins Co of North America’s Empirical Analysis
288 U.S. 162 · 1933
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 18 district · 185 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 456 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1998 · most notably Cardillo US v. Liberty Mut Ins Co (1947), South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. Bassett (1940)
160 federal appellate · 18 district · 185 state decisions — followed in 30 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedIndemnity Ins. Co. of North America v. Hoage (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Crowell v. Benson · Cudahy Packing Co of Nebraska v. Parramore · Bountiful Brick Co. v. Giles · McNicol's Case
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 456 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assigned him by his employer outside the employee's regular working hours, such injury is deemed to arise out of and in the course of the”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“out of and in the course of the employment,”
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.