Brown & Root Const. Co. v. Duckworth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2009
11 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 435 So. 2d 1191 - Johnson v. Ferguson · Myles v. Rockwell International · Johnson v. Gulfport Laundry & Cleaning Co. · 473 So. 2d 423 - Smith and Sanders, Inc. v. Peery · Shippers Express v. Chapman
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mental injury, unaccompanied by physical trauma, must be shown to have been caused by something more than the ordinary incidents of employment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the injury be related to some `untoward event, unusual occurrence,' accident or injury incident to employment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the employer ... deliberately creates a heightened expectation of advancement... and then triggers a reaction by doing something the worker could reasonably perceive as a betrayal, we have a situation which is extraordinary and ... unlikely to recur.”
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.