Fink v. Caudle’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Fritts v. Safety National Casualty Corp. (2005), Blankenship v. American Ordnance Systems, LLS (2005)
73 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 Brown Shoe Company v. Reed · Thomas v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. · Hendrix v. Franklin State Bank · Central Motor Express, Inc. v. Burney · AC Lawrence Leather Company v. Loveday
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when there is apparent to the rational mind, upon consideration of all the circumstances, a causal connection between the conditions under which the work [was] required to be performed and the resulting injury.”
2 later decisions 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.