Robinson v. Atlantic Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1983
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Gallivan v. Wark Co. · Swartz v. Conradis · Byrne v. Henry A. Hitner's Sons Co. · Zimmer v. Casey · Turner v. Robbins
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principal contractor may (by not rejecting) accept section 302(6) of the Compensation Act and by so doing become the statutory employer of the subcontractor’s employes for compensation purposes. He may then make an agreement with the subcontractor for the latter to carry insurance for his own employes. By so doing, the principal contractor is relieved from paying compensation only when it is determined the subcontractor and his insurance carrier are ‘responsible and actually pay’ the compensation. The principal or general contractor is brought into the act for the purpose of securing to the subcontractor’s employes compensation for injuries; he is in that position, when liability for compensation arises, and remains so until responsibility and payment is determined.” (Italics supplied.)”
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.