616 F. Supp. 1561 - Sharp v. Elkins’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2017
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 904 · 33 U.S.C. § 905 · 33 U.S.C. § 933 · 43 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Wilson v. Republic Iron & Steel Co. · Northeast Marine Terminal Co. v. Caputo · Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'this provision limits an employee's rights, it ... at the same time expand[s] them by immunizing him against suits where he negligently injures a fellow worker.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“). Accordingly, if an employer commits a willful act against its employee, then the injury to the employee apparently has not been caused by a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“completely obliterate[] the rights at common, civil or maritime law against Employer and fellow employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.