Mercer v. Ott’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Peet v. Mills · Berry v. Wadhams Oil 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The compensation acts of a number of jurisdictions of the United States and of Canada provide, in substance, that where an employee has been injured by the negligence of a third person under such circumstances as to render him legally liable, and compensation for the injury has been paid by the employer, he is subrogated to the employee’s rights against such third person and may bring an action against the latter for damages .... “The statute of this state does not in terms release the tort-feasor, or assign the right of action, when compensation is paid out of the workmen’s compensation fund.””
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.