Kroll v. Reeser’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2024
11 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 Burgess Construction Co. v. Smallwood · Searfus v. Northern Gas Company · Ostrem v. Alaska Workmen's Compensation Board · Selid Construction Co. v. Guarantee Insurance Co. · Ruble v. Arctic General, Inc.
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.
“'the policy question is whether Kroll's construction activity, either by itself or as an element of his rental activities, was a profit-making enterprise which ought to bear the costs of injuries incurred in the business, or was the construction activity simply a cost-cutting shortcut in what was basically a consumptive and not a productive rol[e]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person employing one or more persons in connection with a business or industry coming within the scope of [the Act]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fail[ed] to give proper weight to the statutory limitation to employment relationships”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yong Kang v. Mullins
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.