Alaska Packers Ass'n v. Industrial Accident Commission’s Empirical Analysis
294 U.S. 532 · 1935
Citation profile
151 federal appellate · 56 district · 377 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 791 later decisions (96 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Van Dusen v. Barrack (1964), Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts (1985)
151 federal appellate · 56 district · 377 state decisions — followed in 41 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 Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Huntington v. Attrill · New York Central Railroad Company v. Sarah White · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana
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 791 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A rigid and literal enforcement of the full faith and credit clause, without regard to the statute of the forum, would lead to the absurd result that, wherever the conflict arises, the statute of each state must be enforced in the courts of the other, but cannot be in its own.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But where the contract is entered into within the state, even though it is to be performed elsewhere, its terms, its obligation, and its sanctions are subject, in some measure, to the legislative control of the state. The fact that the contract is to be performed elsewhere does not of itself put these incidents beyond reach of the power which a state may constitutionally exercise. Selover, Bates & Co. v. Walsh, 226 U.S. 112 , 123, 33 S.Ct. 69 , 57 L.Ed. 146 ; Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Liebing, 259 U.S. 209 , 214, 42 S.Ct. 467 , 66 L.Ed. 900 ; Manhattan Life Ins. Co. v. Cohen, 234 U.S. 123 , 136, 34 S.Ct. 874 , 58 L.Ed. 1245 ; compare Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Dunken, 266 U.S. 389 , 397—400, 45 S.Ct. 129 , 69 L.Ed. 342 . “While similar power to control the legal consequences of a tortious act committed elsewhere has been denied, Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Brown, 234 U.S. 542 , 547, 34 S.Ct. 955 , 58 L.Ed. 1457 ; Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Chiles, 214 U.S. 274 , 278, 29 S.Ct. 613 , 53 L.Ed. 994 ; compare Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Commercial Milling Co., 218 U.S. 406 , 31 S.Ct. 59 , 54 L.Ed. 1088 , the liability under Workmen’s Compensation Acts is not for a tort. It is imposed as an incident of the employment relationship, as a cost to be borne by the business enterprise, rather than as an attempt to extend redress for the wrongful act of the employer. See Bradford Electric Light Co. v. Clapper, supra, 286 U.S. [145] 157, 158, 52 S.Ct. 571 [ 76 L.Ed. 1026 ]. The Califo”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The interest of Alaska is not shown to be superior to that of California. No persuasive reason is shown for denying to California the right to enforce its own laws in its own courts, and in the circumstances the full faith and credit clause does not require that the statutes of Alaska be given that effect.”
3 later decisions 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.