Martinez v. Darby Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2018
16 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 Tallman v. ABF (Arkansas Best Freight) · Duke City Lumber Co. v. New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board · Franco v. Federal Building Service, Inc. · State v. Isiah · National Council on Compensation Insurance v. New Mexico State Corp. Commission
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Worker's [sic] Compensation Act expresses the intention and policy of this state that employees who suffer disablement as a result of injuries causally connected to their work shall not become dependent upon the welfare programs of the state, but shall receive some portion of the wages they would have earned, had it not been for the intervening disability. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an independent examination of the entire record to determine whether substantial evidence exists to support the reasonableness of the [judge's] decision to award benefits to the claimant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A compensable injury requires some legal disability or inability to perform work[.]”
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.