McAdams v. Canale’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 1998
22 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 Kern v. Southport Mill, Ltd. · Thornton v. RCA Service Co. · Hendrix v. Franklin State Bank · Barrell v. Wessel · National Surety Corp. v. Kemp
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In that case it was said also that an employer may enlarge or extend the scope of the employment; and that an employee who, at the direction of his employer, performs services beyond the scope of his usual employment but in consequence of the relation of employer and employee and as incidental to the employment, is within the protection of the act while performing such services.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharp v. Jenkins“" ‘Rising out of employment’ refers to the origin of the injury, while ‘in the course of employment’ refers to the time, place and circumstances. Hendrix v. Franklin State Bank, 154 Tenn. 287 , 290 S.W. 30 , and others. The injury received must arise ‘out of’ the employment as well as ‘in the course of’ employment. Thornton v. RCA Service Co., Inc., 188 Tenn. 644 , 221 S.W.2d 954 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knox v. Batson
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.