Socha v. Metz’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Atkins v. Urban Redevelopment Authority (1980), Tsarnas v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1980)
9 federal appellate · 84 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 Maio v. Fahs · Venezia v. Philadelphia Electric Co. · Goldstein v. Ahrens · Zachrel v. Universal Oil Products Co. · Jackson v. Gleason
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It so happens, however, just as in the instant case, that an employer may be required to defend his employee’s trespass action for personal injuries received in the course of his employment when the employer is summoned as an additional defendant or is sued jointly with another for such injuries. But, that procedure is for the sole and exclusive purpose of protecting the original or third-party defendant’s right of contribution from the employer and does not ascribe to the employee or his representative a common law right against his employer for damages for injuries suffered in the course of his employment.”
1 later decision 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.