42 Md. App. 340 - Williams Construction Co. v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2017
2 district · 10 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 Karns v. Liquid Carbonic Corp. · Adams v. Mohican Hotel · Dayton v. Davis · Tuozzoli v. Coulson · Mancini v. Scovill Manufacturing Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“willful misconduct may be found where the employee intend,ed to place himself in a position whereby he might expect, to 'meet with injury or death, and in carrying out his intention meets his death as a result of the injuries sustained. The actions of the employee must be such as to show that he intend,ed thereby to place himself in such a hazardous position that injury or death might result a,s the reasonable consequence of his act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the intentional doing of something either with the knowledge that it is likely to result in serious injury or with a wanton and, reckless disregard of its probable consequences. Misconduct includes the exposure by an employee to an injury if he knows of, and appreciates, his liability to injury. An employee is not guilty of willful misconduct because he is negligent or because he acted imprudently, thoughtlessly, or unwisely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.