Shaffer v. D'Arcy Spring Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1939
6 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 Foley v. Detroit United Railway · Dettloff v. Hammond, Standish & Co. · Hamilton v. Macey 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Received of Prudential Casualty Company of Indianapolis, Ind., the sum of one hundred thirty-eight dollars and no cents, making in all, with weekly payments already received by me, the total sum of one hundred thirty-eight dollars and no cents, in settlement of compensation under the Michigan workmen's compensation law, on account of injuries suffered by myself on or about the 15th day of June, 1914, while in the employ of the D'Arcy Spring Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan, subject to review and approval by the industrial accident board.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Because the board refused to reopen the case in June, 1915, it is said that order is res judicata of the present application. The compensation act (part 3, § 14 [2 Comp. Laws 1915, § 5467]) provides that ‘any weekly payment under this act may be reviewed by the industrial accident board at the request of,’ etc. There appears to be no restriction on the power given to the board to review its former orders for weekly payments, and we think it was contemplated that it should have this power.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is ordered and adjudged that said applicant is entitled to receive and recover from respondents compensation at the rate of six ($6.00) dollars per week from the date of the last payment to November 22, 1916, making a total now due of six hundred and twenty-four ($624.00) dollars, this to close the case.””
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.