In re Betts’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 1973 · most notably Lamm v. Silver Falls Timber Co. (1929), Reisinger-Siehler Co. v. Perry (1933)
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 New York Central Railroad Company v. Sarah White · Mountain Timber Company v. State of Washington · McNicol's Case · Madden's Case · Haskell & Barker Car Co. v. Brown
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The accident arose because of something I was doing in the course of my employment, or because I was exposed by the nature of my employment to some particular danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The accident would not have happened if I had not been engaged in that employment, or if I had not been at that particular place.”
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.