Quinn v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Barnhardt v. Yellow Cab Company (1966), Vincent v. Vermont State Retirement Board (1987)
32 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 Morrisseau v. Legac · State v. Mahoney · Rutland Cable T v. Inc. v. City of Rutland · Goodwin v. Fairbanks, Morse & Co. · Wilkins v. Blanchard-McDonald Lumber Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“earnings are something earned as compensation for labor or the use of capital, a broader definition than the conventional definition of wages, which are ordinarily defined as amounts of money paid daily or weekly for labor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A worker injured in one such employment, but which injury prevents him from working in his other employment as well, may suffer financial hardship by reason of the fact that the compensation he can receive must be based only upon his wages from the employment in which he received the injury. “But Courts are limited to the interpretation of statutes to effect the purpose expressed by the Legislature which enacted them. If a statute seems unfair or unjust the remedy must be sought in a legislative change or modification. It cannot be furnished by judicial action in the guise of interpretation.” Quinn v. Pate, supra at 127, 197 A. 2d at 799 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the purpose of the workmen's compensation law is to provide not only for the employees a remedy which is both expeditious and independent of proof of fault, but also for employers, a liability which is limited and determinative.”
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.