Sunspan Eng. & Const. Co. v. SPRING-LOCK SCAFFOLD. CO.’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 374 So. 2d 490 - Houdaille Industries, Inc. v. Edwards (1979), 152 N.J. Super. 471 - Arcell v. Ashland Chemical Co., Inc. (1977)
3 district · 33 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 Pritchard Ex'X v. Norton · 281 So. 2d 1 - Kluger v. White · Ross v. Gore · 290 So. 2d 13 - Burnsed v. Seaboard Coastline Railroad Company · State Ex Rel. Vars v. Knott
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“440.11 Exclusiveness of liability (1) The liability of an employer prescribed in s. 440.10 shall be exclusive and in place of all other liability of such employer to any third-party tortfeasor and to the employee, the legal representative thereof, husband or wife, parents, dependents, next of kin, and anyone otherwise entitled to recover damages from such employer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“procedural mechanism to settle all related rights and liabilities in pertinent litigation at one time”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]ur holding does not directly touch upon whether [section] 440.11(1) precludes a third party tort-feasor from bringing an action for indemnification upon a contractual theory of liability”
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.