Roberts v. Barclay’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2020
4 federal appellate · 16 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 13 Ill. 2d 431 - Kennerly v. Shell Oil Co. · Adams v. Iten Biscuit Co. · Schultz v. Henry Ericsson Co. · Gannon v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway Co. · 13 Ill. 2d 460 - Gannon v. C., M., ST. P. & P. RY. CO.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since our Workmen's Compensation Law by its terms applies only to disability or death resulting from accidental injuries . it may be conceded that an employee who has been wilfully injured by his employer bas a common law action for damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The liberal use of the phrase 'wilfully and knowingly' in the petition added nothing to the facts Such constituted a mere characterization of the acts or omissions of the defendants concerned.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an employee who has been wilfully injured by his employer [may] halve] a common law action for damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.