Serafin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Med-Mar, Inc. v. DILWORTH · University of Pittsburgh v. Perlman · Dunlap v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Davis v. Commonwealth · Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Hickory Farms of Ohio & Liberty Mutual Insurance
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law is clear that an employee who is injured while going to or returning from work, absent special circumstances, is not engaged in furthering the business of his employer.”
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.