Wilson v. Rowan Drilling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Morningstar Water Users Ass'n v. New Mexico Public Utility Commission (1995), Edens v. New Mexico Health & Social Services Department (1976)
82 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 Sweat v. Allen · Stevenson v. Lee Moor Contracting Co. · Clawson v. . Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. · Lipe v. Bradbury · McKinney v. Dorlac
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen an employee is sent by his employer on a special mission away from his regular work * * * while on such mission, or in the performance of such duty, the employee is acting within the course of his employment * * *.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * An accident arises in the course of the employment when it occurs within the period of the employment at a place where the employee reasonably may be in the performance of his duties and while he is fulfilling those duties or engaged in doing something incidental thereto.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n injury to an employee arises in the course of his * * * employment, at a place where he may reasonably be, and while he is reasonably fulfilling the duties of his employment or engaged in doing something incidental [thereto].”
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.