Nichols v. Benco Plastics, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• general statute dealing with wife’s right to sue for loss of consortium does not override special provision of Workmen’s Compensation Act
• intent of workmen's compensation act was to take \away the right of dependents to sue at common law `or otherwise'\; Larson, The Law of Workmen's Compensation, § 66.20 (1983
• \The legislature may abolish remedies recognized at common law and create new ones to attain permissible legislative object.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lynch v. City of Jellico
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2006-08-30· cited 125×
• Mattison v. Kirk
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1986-10-03· cited 40×
• McKellar v. Clark Equipment Co.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1984-02-23· cited 28×
• Estate of Schultz v. Munford, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-12-17· cited 27×
• Brewer v. Monsanto Corp.
  M.D. Tennessee· 1986-08-15· cited 25×
• Mize v. Conagra, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1987-02-24· cited 24×
• Wright v. Action Vending Company, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-12-31· cited 22×
• Bloemer v. Square D Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-11-01· cited 15×
• Massey v. Thiokol Chemical Corporation
  S.D. Georgia· 1973-12-21· cited 10×
• Dawn v. Essex Conveyors, Inc.
  E.D. Tennessee· 1973-03-19· cited 6×
• State v. McFarland
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-03-17· cited 1×
• Gonzales, Jose Iii
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-08-05
• Lindenberg v. Jackson Nat'l Life Ins. Co.
  W.D. Tennessee· 2016-09-28