Weldon v. Celotex Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
695 F.2d 67 · 1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2008
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Glass v. Freeman · Tatrai v. Presbyterian University Hospital · Keystone Aeronautics Corporation, a Corporation v. R. J. Enstrom Corporation, a Corporation v. Foundry Allied Industries, Inc., a Corporation · Readinger v. Gottschall · Evans v. Allentown Portland Cement Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he statutory scheme thus operates on a law of averages. In some instances where he could prove negligence, an employee may receive less compensation than he would recover in damages in a common law suit. In other situations, an employer may have to pay compensation where he would not be liable for any sum at common law. Despite inequities in specific cases, the underlying assumption is that, on the whole, the legislation provides substantial justice. There can be no recovery at common law for a disease that is covered by the Act.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““These decisions accord with the general principle that ‘the common law liability of the employer cannot be stretched to include accidental injuries caused by the gross, wanton, willful, deliberate, intentional, reckless, culpable, or malicious negligence, breach of statute or other misconduct of the employer short of genuine intentional injury.’ 2 A. Larson, The Law of Workmen’s Compensation, section 68.13 (1975) Weldon v. Celotex Corporation, page 73.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ajppellant was injured in the course of receiving treatment in appellee’s emergency room, a facility serving the general public. In holding itself out to the public as a provider of medical services, appellee hospital owed a duty to all its patients. There is no basis for distinguishing appellant, a paying customer, from any other member of the public injured during the course of treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.