Simpson v. Lee & Cady’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1997
14 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 Voehl v. Indemnity Ins Co of North America · Hills v. Blair · Matter of Grieb v. . Hammerle · Hopkins v. Michigan Sugar Co. · Konopka v. Jackson County Road Commission
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The compensation law is to be construed liberally to provide indemnity for accidents peculiarly incidental to employment, but it ivas not intended to be health, accident and old age insurance and spread general protection over risks common to all and not arising out of and in the course of 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.