Chapman's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Cohen v. Board of Registration in Pharmacy (1966), Wormstead v. Town Manager of Saugus (1975)
47 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 Claim of Dependents of Marks v. Gray · Pigeon's Case · Matter of Glielmi v. Netherland Dairy Co. · Souza's Case · Di Clavio'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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mere fact that the performance of duties, which resulted in injury to the employee occurred before or after regular working hours or during a lunch period would not bar him from compensation if his claim was otherwise compensable. (Cases.) Indeed, compensation for an injury which arose out of the actual performance of his work but outside the usual hours could hardly be denied in this Commonwealth where it is well established that an employee is entitled to compensation for an injury sustained outside the regular hours even if at the time of his injury he was engaged in something which was only incidental to his employment. (Cases.)” Chapman’s Case, 321 Mass. 705 , 75 N.E.2d 433 , at page 437.”
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.