workmen's compensation act
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 286 U.S. 145 - Bradford Elec. Light Co. v. Clapper · 1932Most cited · 535 citing opinions
Workmen's compensation acts are treated, almost universally, as creating a statutory relation between the parties-not, like employer's liability acts, as substituting a statutory tort for a common-law tort.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “workmen's compensation act” — 535 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.