Soto v. Simplot’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2014
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 Fisher v. Bunker Hill Company · Pomerinke v. Excel Trucking Transport, Inc. · Sykes v. C. P. Clare & Co. · Poss v. Meeker MacHine Shop · Roberts v. Kit Manufacturing 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Soto invites us to conclude that medical records and opinions obtained from doctors for purposes of general diagnosis and treatment are not competent evidence in determining permanent impairment. In making the “medical appraisal” of an injury’s effect on daily living activities, there is a potentially wide spectrum of material and relevant evidence worthy of consideration, beyond the particular opinion of a physician asked to give an impairment rating. Such evidence, whether it tends to refute or establish the existence of an impairment, has a place in the Commission’s effort to ascertain truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In this regard, `probable' is defined as `having more evidence for than against.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“physician opinions are not binding on the Commission, but are advisory.”
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.