Walls v. Solvay Process Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1982
5 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 Rylander v. T. Smith & Son, Inc. · Ricks v. Crowell & Spencer Lumber Co. · Ogea v. W. Horace Williams 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The compensation of an injured employee is based on the daily rate of pay at which the services of the employee are recompensed at the time of the injury, but the compensation is to be paid on a weekly basis. Rylander v. Smith & Son, Inc., 177 La. 716 , 149 So. 434 . * * * Unless there was some special agreement in the contract of hiring the number of days to be counted in a normal week is six, re'gardless of whether or not the employee works regularly for the full ten hours or the full six days. Ricks v. Crowell & Spencer Lumber Co., La.App., 189 So. 466 ; Ogea v. W. Horace Williams Co., La.App., 165 So. 345 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibbs v. Pizzolato
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.