Bitar v. Wakim’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2011
4 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no evidence that [the plaintiff] structured h[is] cause of action in such a way as to reap all the benefits, and none of the drawbacks, of the Worker's Disability Compensation Act. Rather, [the plaintiff's] claims simply recognized the corporate structure established by the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“injured h[im]self on property owned by a legal entity that was not h[is] employer.[ [1] ] Thus, [ ]he can bring a lawsuit against the owner of that property without violating the exclusive remedy provision of the Worker's Disability Compensation Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n cases involving a parent-subsidiary corporate structure, an economic realities test is used to determine which entity, or both, is the employer under the [WDCA].”
1 later decision 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.