Mathis v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2013
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Devine's Case · Standard Surety & Casualty Co. of New York v. Sloan · Hedges-Walsh-Weidner Co. v. Haley
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general purpose of the Compensation Acts is to provide compensation for loss of earning power or capacity sustained by workmen through injuries in industry. * # * One may be physically injured and suffer damages, for which he could recover in an action of tort, hut unless the injury to his person affects and diminishes his earning power, he can not recover an award under Compensation Acts.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The measure of the award is prescribed by the language we have italicized. If there is no ‘difference,’ then there can be no award of compensation. 180 Tenn. at 225 , 173 S.W.2d at 438 .”
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.