Acosta v. Labor Commission’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2023
13 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 Morton International, Inc. v. Auditing Division of the Utah State Tax Commission · Allen v. Industrial Commission · Burt v. Burt · Esquivel v. Labor Com'n of Utah · Pledger v. Gillespie
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence has been defined as that quantum and quality of relevant evidence that is adequate to convince a reasonable mind to support a conclusion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“if they are supported by substantial evidence when viewed in light of the whole record before the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“When analyzing whether an injury arose out of and in the course of employment, it matters not at all, from the standpoint of legal causation, whether the preexisting condition was symptomatic or asymptomatic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.