Garrison v. Bonfield’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1990
2 district · 18 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 Keeney v. Beasman · L. E. Marks Co. v. Moore · Yeomans v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. · Eaves v. Contract Trucking Co. · Lester v. Auto Haulaway 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A majority, including the writer, believe the holding in the Eaves case was too strict and that the decision should have gone the other way * * *. ****** “It may be well to here state the Legislature has cured our error in the Eaves case by the enactment of Ch. 87, Laws of 1953, providing that the filing by the employer of a statement he elected to be bound by the Workmen’s Compensation Act, or the filing of a bond was a sufficient election by the employer to be bound by the act.” ( 260 P.2d at 720, 721 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ’Mill’ means any plant, premises, room or place where machinery is used, any process of machinery, changing, altering, or repairing any article or commodity for sale or otherwise together with the yards and premises which are part of the plant, including elevators, warehouses and bunkers, saw mill, sash factory or other work in the lumber industry.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. Wheeler
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.