Diffendaffer v. Clifton’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2000
9 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 26 U.S.C. § 162 · 26 U.S.C. § 62
Relies on Jaynes v. Potlatch Forests, Inc. · Bennett v. Bunker Hill Company · Croxen v. Wicks · Parks v. Parks · Skeen v. Sunshine Mining Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"a recognition of the causal connection between the conditions under which an employee must approach and leave the premises of the employer and the occurrence of the injury; it recognizes that the employment involves peculiar and abnormal exposure to a common peril which annexes itself as a risk incident to and inseparable from the employment; it is not necessarily based upon nearness to the plant nor upon reasonable distance therefrom or even identifying the surrounding area as an integral part of the premises for all practical purposes but upon a causal relationship between the work and the hazard." Diffendaffer v. Clifton, 91 Idaho 751, 757 , 430 P.2d 497, 503 (1967).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The evidence establishes that the Claimant's accident arose out of and was a necessary risk associated with his employment and the conditions, obligations and incidents of that employment. The Board finds and rules that the accident and resulting injury arose out of and in the course of his employment." Diffendaffer v. Clifton, supra, 91 Idaho at 756, 430 P.2d at 502 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“intended to cover only instances where there is a very real and special danger,”
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.