Bradford's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1974
20 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 Von Ette's Case · Whiting-Mead Commercial Co. v. Indus. Accident Comm'n · White v. E. T. Slattery Co. · Souza's Case · Haller v. City of Lansing
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “ * * * It is established by our decisions that an employee, in order to be entitled to compensation, need not necessarily be engaged in the actual performance of work at the time of injury; it is enough if he is upon his employer’s premises occupying himself consistently with his contract of hire in some manner pertaining to or incidental to his employment. * * * It cannot be said as matter of law that where an employee is injured on the premises of his employer while smoking or preparing to smoke he is precluded from recovering compensation. This conclusion is supported in princi-pie by the decision cited above and by numerous decisions in other jurisdictions. Whiting-Mead Commercial Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission, 178 Cal. 505 , 173 P. 1105 , 5 A.L.R. 1518 ; Lovallo v. American Brass Co., 112 Conn. 635 , 153 A. 783 ; Rish v. Iowa Portland Cement Co., 186 Iowa 443 , 170 N.W. 532 ; Haller v. [City of] Lansing, 195 Mich. 753 , 162 N.W. 335 , L.R.A.1917E, 324; Kaletha v. Hall Mercantile Co., 157 Minn. 290 , 196 N.W. 261 ; Chludzinski v. Standard Oil Co. of New York, 176 App.Div. 87, 90 , 162 N.Y.S. 225 ; Dzikowska v. Superior Steel Co., 259 Pa. 578 , 103 A. 351 , L.R.A.1918F, 888.””
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.