Hibbard v. Blane’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 1967 · most notably Brannon v. Zurich General Accident & Liability Ins. Co. (1953), Reed v. Calcasieu Paper Company (1957)
28 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 Barr v. Davis Bros. Lumber Co. · McGruder v. Service Drayage Co. · Schneider v. Travelers Ins. Co. · Johnson v. Nobles · Harris v. Southern Carbon 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Under the act an injured employee is entitled to medical and surgical expenses not exceeding $250.00 but unless he spends or becomes obligated for that much he cannot recover that amount. In any event, he cannot recover more than he proves.'"”
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.