Cooper v. Queen’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2018
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Brown Shoe Company v. Reed · Duncan v. Perry Packing Co. · Boek v. Wong Hing · Williams v. Smith · Reed v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he common-law liability of the employer cannot be stretched to include accidental injuries caused by the gross, wanton, wilful, deliberate, intentional, reckless, culpable, or malicious negligence, breach of statute, or other misconduct of the employer short of general intentional injury.... Even if the alleged conduct goes beyond aggravated negligence, and includes such elements as knowingly permitting a hazardous work condition to exist, ... this still falls short of the kind of actual intention to injure that robs the injury of accidental character.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is a distinct difference in fact and law between gross or criminal negligence and actual intent to injure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“knowingly permitted a hazardous work condition to exist”
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.