Caswell's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Foley v. Polaroid Corp. (1980), Goodyear Aircraft Corp. v. Industrial Commission (1945)
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 102 state decisions — followed in 21 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 De Luca v. Board of Park Commissioners · State ex rel. Peoples Coal & Ice Co. v. District Court · Cinmino's Case · Rozek's Case · Cusick'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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An injury arises out of the employment if it arises out of the nature, conditions, obligations or incidents of the employment; in other words, out of the employment looked at in any of its aspects.”
10 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.