Hancock v. Einbinder’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 872 · 1962
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably Wheatley v. Adler (1968), Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1976)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 920
Relies on Jacobson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Friend v. Britton · Commercial Casualty Ins. v. Hoage · Robinson v. Bradshaw · Hoage v. Royal Indemnity Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“notion that an injury is not compensable unless it resulted from the performance of unusual work.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolff v. Britton · Wolff v. Britton
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.