113 F. Supp. 763 - Fernandez v. Gantz’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1987
2 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901
Relies on Ruth v. Witherspoon-Englar Co. · Sarber v. Ætna Life Ins. · Brown v. Sinclair Refining Co. · Ellamar Mining Co. v. Possus
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the great weight of authority the employer is liable for all legitimate consequences follow ing an accident, including unskillfulness or error of judgment of the physician furnished as required, and the employee is entitled to recover under the schedule of compensation for the extent of his disability, based on the ultimate result of the accident, regardless of the fact that the disability has been aggravated and increased by the intervening negligence or carelessness of the employer’s selected physician.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the employer and carrier are liable in a suit at law for the malpractice of physicians furnished by them to an employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.