Torres v. Plastech Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Tom Growney Equipment Co. v. Jouett (2005), Spencer v. Health Force, Inc. (2005)
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 Watson Land Company v. Lucero · Hise Construction v. Candelaria · American Tank & Steel Corp. v. Thompson · ABF Freight System v. Montano · Noland v. Young Drilling Company
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.
“Therefore, subtracting two years and thirty-one days from the date of filing, we must determine whether there is substantial evidence that [the worker] knew, or should have known, of her injury and that [she] was entitled to compensation before February 26, 1993.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“that the status of disability [either TTD, PPD, or PTD] or the existence of a scheduled injury is a necessary element required to trigger the statute of limitations[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) an injury entitling the worker to compensation under the Act ; and (2) knowledge, or imputed knowledge, by the worker of this injury.”
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.