Strickland v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Tallman v. ABF (Arkansas Best Freight) (1988), Herman v. Miners' Hospital (1991)
38 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 Silva v. State · Wittkowski Ex Rel. Wittkowski v. State, Corrections Department · Gonzales v. Stanke-Brown & Associates, Inc. · Noffsker v. K. Barnett & Sons · Security Trust v. Smith
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“52-1-25. Total disability. A. ... “[Tjotal disability” means an impairment to a worker resulting by reason of an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of employment which prevents the worker from engaging, for remuneration or profit, in any occupation for which he is or becomes fitted by age, training or experience. $ * $ * ♦ >fc 52-1-26. Partial disability. A. As a guide to the interpretation and application of this section, the policy and intent of this legislature is declared to be that every person who suffers a compensable injury with resulting partial disability should be provided with the opportunity to return to gainful employment as soon as possible with minimal dependence on compensation awards. C. The hearing officer shall determine the percentage of disability by considering the work the worker is capable of performing or the work the worker would be able to perform if vocational rehabilitation is required pursuant to Section 52-1-50 NMSA 1978. * * * * * * 52-1-50. Vocational rehabilitation services. C. ... the employer shall furnish vocational rehabilitation services for the worker who has suffered an injury____ When, as a result of the injury, the worker is unable to perform the pre-injury job with the same employer or unable to perform modified work with the same employer, he shall be entitled to vocational rehabilitation evaluation, counseling and training if necessary to return the worker to either a job related to his former employment or sui”
2 later decisions 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.