Hudson v. Herschbach Drilling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 1995 · most notably Gonzales v. Surgidev Corp. (1995), Lipe v. Bradbury (1945)
2 district · 48 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 United States v. Memphis Cotton Oil Co. · Peck v. . Goodberlett · Kerr v. Southwest Flourite Co. · Pound v. Gaulding · Nikolich v. Slovenska Nardona Podporna Jednota
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Workmen's compensation statutes are sui generis and create rights, remedies and procedure which are exclusive. They are in derogation of the common law and are not controlled or affected by the code of procedure in suits at law or actions in equity except as provided therein." (Emphasis added.)”
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.