Wells v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the accident that caused the injury occurred on premises that are “owned or controlled by the employer” or “have been so appropriated by the employer or so situate[d], designed and used by the employer and his employees incidental to their work as to make them, for all practical intents and purposes, a part and parcel of the employer’s premises and operation,” and (2) “that portion of ■ such premises is a part of the customary, expressly or impliedly approved, permitted, usual and acceptable route or means employed by workers to get to and depart from their places. of labor and is being used for such purpose at the time of injury.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roberts v. Parker-Banks Chevrolet · Lincoln University v. Kathy Narens

2. “[Employment includes not only the actual doing of the work, but a reasonable margin of time and space to be used in passing to and from the place where the work is to be done. If the employee be injured while passing, with the express or implied consent of the employer, to or from his work by a way over the employer’s premises, or over those of another in such 'proximity and relation as to be in practical effect a part of the employer’s premises, the injury is one arising out of and in the course of employment as much as though it had happened while the employee was engaged in his work at the place of its performance. * * * Probably, as a general rule, employment may be said to begin when the employee reaches the entrance to the employer’s premises where the work is to be done; but it is clear that in some cases the rule extends to include adjacent premises used by the employee as a means of ingress and egress with the express or implied consent of the employer.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roberts v. Parker-Banks Chevrolet

3. “request[ed] that his employees park in the perimeter of the lot (to save the closer parking for [customers]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 43 Va. App. 514 - Cleveland v. FOOD LION, LLC 0578