Leeper v. Asmus’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 3 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]n employee may sue a fellow employee only for affirmative negligent acts outside the scope of an employer's responsibility to provide a safe workplace.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Paige Parr, a minor, by and through her Conservator, Janett Waid, Jerimy Morehead, and Charles Parr v. Charles Breeden, Wendy Cogdill, and Melanie Buttry · Curt Peters and Cheri Peters v. Wady Industries, Inc., and Patrick Terrio

2. “[B]efore a court can determine whether a co-employee owes a duty in negligence at common law (a question of law), it must first be determined whether the workplace injury is attributable to the employer's breach of a nondelegable duty, a question of fact unique to the workplace.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McComb v. Norfus