Smith v. Trailways, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Mares v. VALENCIA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT. (1988), Romero v. Cotton Butane Co., Inc. (1986)
26 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 Fryar v. Johnsen · Woodson v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Reynolds v. Ruidoso Racing Association, Inc. · Vaughn v. United Nuclear Corp. · Matter of Adams
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * has the burden of proving apportionment between itself and the Fund. Once the worker has established his right to recovery, it makes little difference to him how he is paid. Because the employer or its carrier seeks repayment from the Fund, the burden rests with those parties to prove apportionment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.