41 So. 2d 800 - Brooks v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"As plaintiff was never employed by defendant company to work or serve in any capacity in the course of his employer's business, but only as an outside workman to do a special job of paperhanging, it cannot be held that he was an employee of defendant company under the Employers' Liability Act of this state * * *."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Edwards v. Stafford · Speed v. Page

2. “"Is a person who owns and leases buildings which he keeps in repair, decorates and rents to tenants, engaged in a business of such nature as makes him liable, under the workmen's compensation statute of our State, for an injury sustained by an employee in the performance of services arising out of and incidental to such a business?"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Edwards v. Stafford

3. ““We prefer to follow the principle enunciated by the Supreme Court in the Sproull case which leads us to the inescapable conclusion that plaintiff must be denied relief in view of the fact that he was not employed by the defendant to perform any work or render any service in the course of the said defendant’s business.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dobson v. Standard Accident Insurance