Myers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Frank v. Baltimore County (1979), Engelbrecht v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. (1984)
41 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 63 Cal. 2d 242 - City of Los Angeles v. Industrial Accident Commission · Colonial Insurance v. Industrial Accident Commission · Industrial Commission v. Rowe · Weiss v. Salvation Army
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he General Assembly intended to require a reduction in the workmen’s compensation benefits otherwise payable to an injured employee where the employer, who has himself already paid the cost of workmen’s compensation insurance has also purchased, in whole or in part, a disability pension or annuity plan for his employee. The General Assembly was of the view that an injured employee should not be permitted to receive so-called ‘double’ disability benefits, ie., both workmen’s compensation benefits and disability annuity at the expense of the employer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In cases where it is determined that periodic disability benefits are payable to an employee under the provisions of a pension plan financed in whole or in part by the employer, hereinafter called ‘Employer Pension Plan,’ the aggregate benefits payable for ... permanent total disability pursuant to this section, shall be reduced, but not below zero....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We do not perceive any constitutional infirmity in this statute. Workmen’s Compensation benefits are fixed by statute, and the statute not only creates, but measures the benefits to be thus received.” 162 Colo, at 441, 428 P.2d at 86 .”
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.