Heller v. Aldi, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2017
5 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 Parmer v. Bean · Zahn v. Associated Dry Goods Corp. · McGuire v. Tenneco, Inc. · Jenkins v. Andrews · DuBose v. Flightsafety International, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny person who has work done under contract on or about his premises which is an operation of the usual business which he there carries on shall be deemed an employer and shall be liable under this chapter to such contractor ... when injured or killed on or about the premises of the employer while doing work which is in the usual course of his business.”
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.