Pope v. Golden Rod Broilers, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2001
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
Relies on Wooten v. Roden · Union Camp Corporation v. Blackmon · 387 So. 2d 204 - Fordham v. Southern Phenix Textiles, Inc. · 417 So. 2d 199 - Slimfold Mfg. Co. v. Martin · 33 Ala. App. 497 - Wells v. Morris
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arising out of' requirement, the employee must show a causal connection between the injury and the employment. Mackey, supra. More specifically, the injury must be rationally traceable to a proximate cause set in motion by the employment and not otherwise. Id. The causal connection must be definite; a showing "that the injury would not have occurred 'but for' the employment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“employment are the time, place, and circumstances of the injury. Pope, supra . An injury is not”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"His action was in no way a part of his duties. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine what possible benefit [the employer] might have derived from this action.... However, [the employee's] action was in no way necessary to his life, comfort, or convenience and was thus not incidental to his employment." (Citations omitted.)”
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.