Big" 2" Engine Rebuilders v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 523 So. 2d 314 - Fought v. Stuart C. Irby Co. (1988), 562 So. 2d 1293 - Metal Trims Industries, Inc. v. Stovall (1990)
4 federal appellate · 44 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 O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc. · Edwards v. Louisiana Forestry Commission · Brookhaven Steam Laundry v. Watts · Puttkammer v. Industrial Commission · McCluskey v. Thompson
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such personal pursuits as cleaning teeth, smoking and procuring tobacco, and going to the telephone.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“arising out of and in the course of employment”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“As remedial legislation to compensate and make whole, it should be construed fairly to further its humanitarian aims.”
5 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.