Wright v. Bi-Lo, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2016
13 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 Hunter v. Patrick Construction Co. · Howell v. Kash & Karry · Portee v. South Carolina State Hospital · Johnson v. Merchant's Fertilizer Co. · Grice v. National Cash Register 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our Supreme Court has succinctly stated the applicable law on this question: [N]ot every violation of an order given to a workman will necessarily remove him from the protection of the Workmen’s Compensation Act.... “Certain rules concern the conduct of the workman within the sphere of his employment, while others limit the sphere itself. A transgression of the former class leaves the scope of his employment unchanged, and will not prevent the recovery of compensation, while a transgression of the latter sort carries the workman outside of the sphere of his employment and compensation will be denied.” Johnson v. Merchant’s Fertilizer Co., 198 S.C. 373, 378-379 , 17 S.E.2d 695, 697-698 (1941) (citations omitted) (emphasis added). When an employer limits the sphere of employment by specific prohibitions, injuries incurred while violating these prohibitions are not in the scope of employment and, therefore, not compensable. Black v. Town of Springfield, 217 S.C. 413 , 60 S.E.2d 854 (1950).”
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.