Akef v. BASF Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2010
18 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 Fiore v. Consolidated Freightways · Bond v. Rose Ribbon & Carbon Mfg. Co. · Squeo v. Comfort Control Corp. · Giagnacovo v. Beggs Bros. · 280 N.J. Super. 96 - Gulick v. HM Enoch, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen there is evidence that a condition underlying a disability was obvious, diagnosable and capable of measurement, compensation for the resultant disability should be apportioned to or among those employers ... to cover the periods of prior employments during which the underlying condition was discoverable and measurable.”
2 later decisions 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.