Stevenson v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2018
13 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 910
Relies on Claim of Littler v. George A. Fuller Co. · Andrejwski v. Wolverine Coal Co. · Stevenson v. Hill · Capone's Case · Picanardi v. Emerson Hotel 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“variation in working time, reducing opportunities to earn, must be a factor in the computation of average of weekly wages earned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'earnings in a normal week, regard being had to the known and recognized incidents of the employment[.]'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'all the time the mines in the region,' including the mine of [the employer] 'were generally employed.'”
1 later decision 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.