McKinney v. Dorlac’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Cardillo US v. Liberty Mut Ins Co (1947), Frederick v. Younger Van Lines (1964)
59 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 Wineland v. Taylor
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * while at work in or about the premises occupied, used or controlled by the employer, and injuries occurring elsewhere while at work in any place where their employer’s business requires their presence and subjects them to extra-hazardous duties incident to the business, * * * ” and that the injury complained of was sustained while the deceased was engaged in the performance of his contract of employment, and that said injury arose out of and 'in the course of his employment.”
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.