workmen's compensation liability
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 294 U.S. 532 - Alaska Packers Ass'n v. Industrial Accident Commission · 1935Most cited · 791 citing opinions
the liability under Workmen's Compensation Acts is not for a tort. It is imposed as an incident of the employment relationship, as a cost to be borne by the business enterprise, rather than as an attempt to extend redress for the wrongful act of the employer.
How often courts cite the case defining “workmen's compensation liability”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “workmen's compensation liability” — 791 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.