Case v. Goss’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2022
21 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 Danculovich v. Brown · England v. Simmons · Barnette v. Doyle · Brittain v. Booth · Pan American Petroleum Corporation v. Like
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The rights and remedies provided in this act for an employee and his dependents for injuries incurred in extrahazardous employments are in lieu of all other rights and remedies against any employer making contributions required by this act, or his employees acting within the scope of their employment, but do not supersede any rights and remedies available to an employee and his dependents against any other person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In this case, the outer boundary of this delegated duty is defined by the additional factor that mining is considered an extra-hazardous activity in Wyoming, W.S. 27-12-106 (1977), involving the use of dangerous agencies. Persons knowingly dealing with a dangerous agency must exercise the care commensurate with the danger involved. Pan American Petroleum Corporation v. Like, 381 P.2d 70, 74 (Wyo.1963). As such, the degree of care of those entrusted with the duty to provide a safe workplace is greater than under the ordinary circumstances of life or business where little or no risk is involved. This standard of care requires that every reasonable precaution suggested by experience and the known dangers of the subject ought to be taken. [emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Giving every beneficial inference from the record to Brebaugh, another possible evaluation of that evidence indicates a jury could find a disregard of a known or obvious risk that was so great as to make it highly probable. Much would depend on which witnesses were the most credible to the finder of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brebaugh v. Hales
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.