Naso v. Lafata’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2013
3 federal appellate · 12 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 Gochee v. Wagner · Pierce v. New York Central Railroad Company · Elfeld v. Burkham Auto Renting Co. · Traub v. Dinzler · Gorham v. Arons
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Were we to allow plaintiff, under the present circumstances, to recover against the downer of the automobile, Lafata, Jr. then, under the rule set forth in the Traub and Gorham cases, Lafata, Jr., would be entitled to recovery over against plaintiff's fellow employee, Lafata, Sr., the negligent operator of the vehicle. Under such a holding the fellow employee would be afforded less than complete protection, and the legislative purpose in adopting subdivision 6 of section 29 of the Workmen's Compensation Law would, thereby, be thwarted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The right to compensation or benefits under this Chapter, shall be the exclusive remedy to the employee, or in the case death his dependents, when such employee is injured or killed by the negligence or wrong of another in the same employee." (emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Where] the only negligence alleged ... consists of negligent] acts and omissions ascribed to the operator of the vehicle, plaintiff clearly seéks to recover for injury caused solely “by the negligence or wrong of another in the same employ” and not because the defendant [owner] was a wrongdoer. This privilege is denied him by the compensation statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Isabella v. Koubek
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.