Deffenbaugh v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Badillo v. Mid Century Insurance Co. (2005), Dyke v. Saint Francis Hospital, Inc. (1993)
27 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 Vanderpool v. State · McCormack v. Oklahoma Publishing Co. · Faulkenberry v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. · Guinn v. Church of Christ of Collinsville · Unah by and Through Unah v. Martin
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]utomobile liability insurers are not obligated by law to protect their insureds against responsibility which falls within the workers' compensation reparations regime. The terms of 47 O.S.1981 § 7-324(f) clearly relieve insurers of any legal obligation to include in the standard motor vehicle liability policy a provision for indemnity against employment-related harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“need not insure any liability under any workmen's compensation law nor any liability on account of bodily injury to or death of an employee of the insured while engaged in the employment, other than domestic, of the insured, or while engaged in the operation, maintenance or repair of any such vehicle ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“It is settled in this jurisdiction that an employee is immune from tort liability for injury to a co-employee when the co-employee receives workers' compensation for the injury .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.