Petillo v. Stein’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
4 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Washington Homes, Inc. v. Interstate Land Development Co. (1978), County Council v. Investors Funding Corp. (1973)
4 district · 50 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 Friederichsen v. Renard · National Transportation Co., Inc. v. Toquet · Hecht v. Crook · Solvuca v. Ryan & Reilly Co. · Paul v. Glidden 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The policy of the statute does not favor lump-sum awards. They are the exception rather than the rule. While necessary in some cases, they are not made of right---- In cases where an appeal by the employer and the insurer is pending, the Commission should be careful to see that no damage is done to their fundamental rights by granting a request for a lump-sum conversion.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[fjailure to get a stay of converted lump-sum payments, especially if they consume the whole of the award, may raise other questions under some conditions. We are concerned here, however, only with statutory provisions. No question arises of judicial relief where substantial fundamental rights are violated by arbitrary or unreasonable administrative action without adequate statutory remedy.... The Legislature did not qualify its requirement that an appeal shall not be a stay, and we cannot attach any conditions to it. We must hold, following our previous decisions, that it applies to all appeals including those from converted or commuted awards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such authority in the Legislature could not be denied consistently with the principle upon which the general validity of the Workmen’s Compensation Act had been adjudicated. “Its design was to insure speedy, as well as certain, relief in proper cases within the scope of its application. That humanitarian policy would be seriously hampered if the weekly payments of compensation awarded by the commission could be suspended because of an appeal. In providing that an appeal should not be a stay, the statute was simply adopting a 'necessary expedient to accomplish one of the important purposes for which it was enacted. ””
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.