Zerofski's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Kelly's Case (1985), Murphy v. Commissioner of the Department of Industrial Accidents (1993)
2 district · 43 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 Madden's Case · Sponatski's Case · Caswell's Case · Hurle's Case · Evans'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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an identifiable condition [of the employment] that is not common and necessary to all or a great many occupations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our decisions place injuries attributable to specific events at work within the business risks covered by the act, even when employment does not expose employees to an unusual risk greater than that experienced by the general public. Caswell's Case, 305 Mass. 500, 502 (1940) (injury at work during hurricane). See Fitzgibbons's Case, 374 Mass. 633, 638 (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly's Case“[m]uch of the responsibility for separating injuries that are sufficiently work-related from those that are not rests with the Industrial Accident Board, which must determine as a matter of fact whether a causal connection exists between employment and injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly's Case
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.