Meyer v. Kendig’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Baker v. Wendy's of Montana, Inc. (1984), Campbell County School District v. State (1995)
1 federal appellate · 41 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Michel v. United States · Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · 397 So. 2d 475 - Bazley v. Tortorich
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * As to all extra hazardous employments the legislature shall provide by law for the accumulation and maintenance of a fund or funds out of which shall be paid compensation as may be fixed by law according to proper classifications to each person injured in such employment or to the dependent families of such as die as the result of such injuries, except in case of injuries due solely to the culpable negligence of the injured employee. * * ⅜ The right of each employee to compensation from such fund shall be in lieu of and shall take the place of any and all rights of action against any employer contributing as required by law to such fund in favor of any person or persons by reason of any such injuries or death.” (Emphasis added.)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`Courts have a duty to uphold the constitutionality of statutes which the legislature has enacted if that is at all possible, and any doubt must be resolved in favor of constitutionality.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hoem v. State · Pote v. State“"[n]o law shall be enacted limiting the amount of damages to be recovered for causing the injury or death of any person." (Emphasis added.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Mills v. Reynolds · White v. State
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.