Hockett v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2012
18 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 Baugh v. Rogers · Feitig v. Chalkley · Reed v. Styron · Ransom v. Haner · Royal Indemnity Co. v. Southern California Petroleum Corp.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The basic reasoning behind these holdings is that the workmen’s compensation laws have predicated an employer’s liability to his employee on the employer-employee relationship and not in tort; that consequently the right of an employee to receive benefits under workmen’s compensation is not based on fault or negligence, but is contractual in nature; that a negligent employee is not liable for compensation and is, therefore, a stranger to the Act, being a person other than the employee entitled to receive compensation and the employer liable to pay it. Further, that coemployees are in no way subject to the provisions of the compensation act in their relationship with each other. Some of these courts have said that to hold otherwise would be to unjustly confer upon a workman freedom to neglect his duty towards a fellow employee and immunize him against all liability for damages proximately caused by his negligence. (Citing authorities)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madison v. Pierce
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.