Bourne v. Washburn’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 1022 · 1971
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2010
6 federal appellate · 6 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 Washington Gas Light Co. v. Connolly · Parrish v. United States · Thomas v. United States · Jorier Haught Yost v. Theta E. Sauter
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.
“can recover for pains resulting from that injury that ... are not due to organic ailment but [rather] are psychosomatic in origin, and are due to the impact of the injury upon or in aggravation of a pre-existing neurotic or psychic weakness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gubbins v. Hurson
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.