No. 84-1909’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably Colorado Common Cause v. Meyer (1988), United States v. St. John (1996)
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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 31 Ill. 2d 69 - Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp. · Hulver v. United States · McKenna v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. · Fryzel v. Cash Currency Exchange, Inc. · Downs v. Florida
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Carrier held immune under the wording of the Arkansas third-party provision, in which the words `employer or carrier' are closely followed by `any third party,' thus identifying the employer and carrier in third-party situations, and disassociating the carrier from `any third party.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In holding the carrier immune from this kind of suit, these courts [i.e., courts of several jurisdictions construing workers’ compensation acts] generally have considered the adverse consequences of a contrary conclusion in light of the purposes and policies underlying the entire statutory scheme of workers’ compensation. Those consequences include, among others, the potential for unlimited liability of workers’ compensation carriers, a substantial increase in workers’ compensation insurance premiums for all employers, the abandonment of many safety programs currently undertaken by workers’ compensation carriers, and a breakdown in the expeditious and informal administration of workers’ compensation claims, all to the detriment of employees and employers alike.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o ascertain such legislative intent, we may properly consider not only the language of the statute but also the subject matter, the object to be accomplished, the purpose to be served, the underlying policies, the remedy provided, and the consequences of various interpretations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Graven
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.