Gagnon's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably Reynolds v. Ruidoso Racing Association, Inc. (1961), Goldthwaite v. Sheraton Restaurant (1958)
37 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 Lawson v. Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co · Madden's Case · Mailman's Case · Nease v. Hughes Stone Co. · Connelly's Case
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case of Miss Gagnon there is no evidence to indicate that her capacity to earn the wages which she was receiving at the time of the accident has been impaired because of the disease. Except for the accident she might still be able to earn the same wages. Assuming that she could, the appellees would be responsible for her total incapacity.” Id., at 133 , 65 A.2d 6 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The purpose of such statutes is, not only to relieve the employer from liability for incapacity occasioned by the first injury or diseased condition as the case may be, but to minimize the chance that wage earners may be denied employment because of a physical handicap.” Gagnon’s Case, 144 Me. 131, 134 , 65 A.2d 6, 8 (1949).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Church v. McKee
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.