Lyon v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on ITT Commercial Finance Corp. v. Mid-America Marine Supply Corp. · State Ex Rel. Badami v. Gaertner · Tauchert v. Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis · Hedglin v. Stahl Specialty Co. · Craft v. Scaman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n cases that have recognized the “something more” element has been met, the supervisor had personally participated in the “something more” by directing the employees to engage in dangerous conditions that a reasonable person would recognize as hazardous and beyond the usual requirements of the employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burns v. Smith
How this case has been treated — in progress
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