Wren v. Sullivan Electric, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 323 · 1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2010
9 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 654 (§ 5 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970)
Relies on Teal v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. · Alex v. Armstrong · 22 Tenn. App. 270 - Tennessee Eastman Corp. v. Newman · Berry Ex Rel. Berry v. Whitworth · Traylor v. Coburn
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under Tennessee law the violation of a statute or regulation is negligence per se as to members of the class that the statute or regulation is intended to protect.”
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.