Sneath v. Express Messenger Service’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2021
10 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 Department of Health v. Donahue · Johnson v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N OF STATE · 29 Colo. App. 303 - Kirkham v. Hickerson Bros. Truck Co. · 18 Va. App. 391 - Wood v. Caudle-Hyatt, Inc. · 41 Colo. App. 322 - Filippone v. Industrial Commission
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“two claims-one 'owned' by the employee and one 'owned' by [the employer's insurance] carrier.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The payment of compensation pursuant to articles 40 to 47 of this title shall operate as and be an assignment of the cause of action against such other person to [the workers' compensation insurer or fund] , if compensation is payable from said funds, and otherwise to the person, association, corporation, or insurance carrier liable for the payment of such compensation. Said insurance carrier shall not be entitled to recover any sum in excess of the amount of compensation for which said carrier is liable under said articles to the injured employee, but to that extent said carrier shall be subrogated to the rights of the injured employee against said third party causing the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that claimant had not raised [an] issue ... before the ALJ [and] affirmed the ALJ's award without passing upon that issue,”
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.