McCarnan v. New Castle County’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 2013
3 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 M. A. Hartnett, Inc. v. Coleman · New Castle County v. Goodman · Pusey v. Reed · Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. v. Mullen · Starun v. All American Engineering Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the facts indicate that the employer or its carrier made a payment under a feeling of compulsion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the only reasonable conclusion is that the carrier considered itself obliged to do so under the act”
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.