Smith v. Workers' Compensation Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 142 W. Va. 484 - Bostic v. State Compensation Commissioner · 163 W. Va. 413 - Boggs v. SWCC · 157 W. Va. 837 - Griffith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 160 W. Va. 629 - Ford v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · Hughes v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COM'R
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A claimant who timely files a successive claim for occupational pneumoconiosis benefits, but is unable to show any increase in permanent disability due to occupational pneumoconiosis above that previously awarded, may still prove that the combined effects of the occupational pneumoconiosis and prior definitely ascertainable physical impairments caused by injury, render the claimant totally and permanently disabled under the second injury life award statute. W.Va.Code, 23-3-1."”
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.