Butzman v. Delta Shipbuilding Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1972 · most notably Morgan v. American Bitumuls Co. (1950), 109 So. 2d 823 - Pohl v. American Bridge Division US Steel Corp. (1959)
25 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 Knispel v. Gulf States Utilities Co. · Carlino v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Stieffel v. Valentine Sugars, Inc. · Thornton v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · Black v. Louisiana Cent. Lumber 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'When an injured employee is unable to do work of the same description that he was employed to do when injured, his injury, in contemplation of law, is equal to total disability.'”
2 later decisions 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.