McCluskey v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Athas v. Hill (1984), 700 So. 2d 619 - Russell v. Orr (1997)
4 federal appellate · 32 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 McDonald v. E. J. Lavino Co. · Warner v. Leder · Lucedale Veneer Co. v. Rogers · Palmer v. Clarksdale Hospital · Deemer Lumber Co. v. Hamilton
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any construction given to the workmen's compensation act must be sensible as well as liberal,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our Act and the common law right to sue a fellow employee for negligence, as opposed to an intentional tort, cannot coexist, so the common law right to sue a fellow employee where the injured employee is covered by the Act must give way.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the intent of the legislature must be determined by the total language of the statute and not from a segment considered apart from the remainder.”
3 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.