Bailey v. Hogg’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 585 So. 2d 831 - Harris v. Gill (1991), 631 So. 2d 978 - Layne v. Carr (1994)
24 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 527 So. 2d 102 - Reed v. Brunson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“willful and intentional removal from a machine of a safety guard or safety device.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(b) If personal injury or death to any employee results from the willful conduct, as defined in subsection (c) herein, of any . . . employee of the same employer . . ., the employee shall have a cause of action against the person. . . . "(c) As used herein, 'willful conduct' means any of the following:”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"By making the willful and intentional removal of a safety guard the basis for a cause of action without the higher burden of proof of `intent to injure' found in subsection (a), the legislature acknowledged the important public policy of promoting safety in the workplace and the importance of such guards in providing such safety. The same dangers are present when an available safety guard is not installed as are present when the same guard has been removed."”
3 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.