Cabral v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Town of Scituate v. O'ROURKE (1968), Podborski v. William H. Haskell Manufacturing Co. (1971)
27 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 Lake County v. Rollins · Costanzo v. Tillinghast · United States v. Haynes · Strother v. Burnet · Mason v. Bowerman Bros., Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * payments from the fund shall be made for the continuance of compensation and medical expenses * * to any employee who * *' has suffered an injury resulting in his receiving compensation payments for total incapacity and such incapacity has continued or will continue beyond the maximum period of payment for total incapacity provided under [the Workmen’s Compensation Act].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * a literal reading, though presumptively giving the correct sense of a statute * * * may and should be ignored if it does not convey a sensible meaning * * * or where it contradicts and defeats an evident legislative purpose * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pucci v. Algiere
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.