Ralph v. Sears Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2019
11 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 Adzima v. UAC/Norden Division · Strickler Engineering Corp. v. Seminar, Inc. · 13 Md. App. 337 - Cline v. Mayor of Baltimore · Jackson v. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc. · Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Cline
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Temporary disability benefits are properly awarded until the point that an injured employee is restored as far as possible given the permanent character, if any, of his injuries. Alexander v. Montgomery County, 87 Md.App. 275, 285 , 589 A.2d 563 (1991) (citing Jackson v. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc. 185 Md. 335, 339 , 44 A.2d 811 (1945)). Thereafter, permanent disability benefits may be awarded. In order to determine at what point permanent disability is allowed, the time of an injured employee’s ‘maximum medical improvement’ must be ascertained. Alexander, 87 Md.App. at 286 , 589 A.2d 563 . ‘Maximum medical improvement’ is reached when the injured employee is at a point of stability and has reached the maximum benefit of interventional medical care. Id. at 279 , 589 A.2d 563 . When an employee has reached maximum medical improvement, a doctor can then evaluate the nature and extent of the impairment to determine industrial loss of use of the employee’s body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ngo v. CVS, Inc.
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.