Fredette v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Augat, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Saharceski v. Marcure · St. Germaine v. Pendergast · Brown v. Nutter, McClennen & Fish · Blank v. Chawla
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employee has acted in the course of employment whenever he has, on the employer’s premises, engaged in conduct consistent with his contract of hire and pertinent or incidental to his employment, [citation omitted] Furthermore, an employee has acted in the course of employment even if he has more than one purpose for doing an act, ‘as long as one significant purpose is related to the employment.’”
2 later decisions 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.