Donovan v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2007
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 In Re Estate of Hobelsberger · Mulder v. Tague · Zygmuntowicz v. American Steel & Wire Co. of New Jersey · Gardner v. Stout · Podio v. American Colloid Company
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general purpose of the Workmen's Compensation Law is to substitute, in place of the doubtful contest for recovery or proof of an employer's negligence and the absence of common-law defenses, a right of relief based on the fact of employment (stated to be practically automatic and certain), which improves the economic status of the worker and obviates the uncertainties, delay, expense and hardship attendant upon the enforcement of common-law remedies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`accidental injuries suffered by an employee while leaving the building wherein his actual work is being done [are] generally deemed to have arisen out of and in the course of the employment within the meaning of the workmen's compensation acts.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Workmen's Compensation Law is remedial and should be liberally construed to effectuate its purpose.”
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.