Thorsheim v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2022
4 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 904
Relies on Willingham v. Morgan · 72 So. 2d 285 - Jones v. Florida Power Corp. · Simon Service Incorporated v. Mitchell · Alexander v. Morrison-Knudsen Company · Matanuska Electric Association, Inc. v. Johnson
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.
“The Department of Fish and Game [and the Department of Administration] acted as an integral part of the State of Alaska; the work of the . . [Depart ments] was the work of the state. . . The duties of these two departments were set out by constitutional and statutory mandate, and were not arrived at through bargaining between the two departments . . . [B]oth departments acted in their roles as parts of the machinery of state government, and the Department of Administration’s obligation to conduct bidding was in no sense contractual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An employer is liable for and shall secure the payment to his employees of the compensation payable under §§ 50, 95, 145, and 180-215 of this chapter. If the employer is a subcontractor, the contractor is liable for and shall secure the payment of the compensation to employees of the subcontractor unless the subcontractor secures the payment. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Words and phrases. Words and phrases shall be constructed according to the rules of grammar and according to their common and approved usage. Technical words and phrases and those which have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning, whether legislative definition or otherwise, shall be constructed according to the peculiar and appropriate meaning.”
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.