Rogers's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 1987 · most notably 31 Ill. 2d 272 - Chmelik v. Vana (1964), Proctor-Silex Corp. v. DeBrick (1969)
37 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Souza's Case · Bresnahan v. Barre · Murphy v. Miettinen · Latter's Case · Nagle'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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The employee worked in a hat factory. He was accustomed to come to work in an automobile of a fellow employee which would be parked in a ‘parking lot’ owned and ‘furnished’ by the employer where the employer permitted its employees to park. At the time of the injury the automobile was parked as usual in the ‘parking lot.’ The employee left it to go to work, and while still on the lot and ‘going down an incline,’ he fell and broke an ankle. ‘It was no part of the duty of the employee to use an automobile to reach his work.’ The furnishing of the ‘parking lot’ was ‘no part of the contract of employment.’ Although the board did not expressly find that this lot was opposite the employer’s factory, the uncontradicted evidence both of the employee and of the insurer was to that effect, and that fact seems to have been assumed. It was necessary, however, to walk a short distance down the street to the plant entrance. “These facts require as matter of law a decree for the employee. Although the employee was not obliged to come to work in an automobile, and the employer was not obliged by contract to furnish the ‘parking lot,’ yet it is plain that it did furnish the lot as an incident of the employment, and that the employee, while actually on his employer’s premises and on his way to the place where his day’s work was to be performed by a route which he was permitted and expected to take, fell and was injured. It is of no consequence that a street intervened between the part of the ”
2 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.