Maxwell v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 1992
6 federal appellate · 15 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the same extent as the immediate employer,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To limit the liability thus created to cases where the immediate employer is liable under the Act, would place it within the power of the principal contractor to evade the Act by letting the work to sub-contractors who would stay beyond the reach of the statute by employing less than five persons and not electing to accept the Act. Such construction would be hostile to the very purpose and intent of the Act. The Workmen's Compensation Act is remedial, intended to burden industry with the responsibility of industrial accidents by requiring compensation to injured employees, and is to be applied fairly and broadly to accomplish the ends intended.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The clear intent and purpose of the Legislature in the enactment of the above section was to insure, as far as possible to all workmen so engaged, payment according to the schedule of benefits provided elsewhere in the Act when injured in the course of their employment. . . . We think that the words `to the same extent as the immediate employer,' found in the first paragraph thereof, were not intended to limit the liability of the principal, or other contractor, but were inserted for the purpose of imposing upon them liability equal in all respects to the liability imposed, by other provisions of the Act, upon immediate statutory employers. . . . We must, therefore, conclude that the circumstance that Vetter employed less than five persons for pay, on this particular work, and had not elected to accept the Act, and was not by reason of these things a statutory `employer,' cannot have the effect of releasing Maxwell from liability under the Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Graham v. . Wall
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.