Elsenpeter v. Potvin’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably Mattson v. Abate (1968), Bomersine v. Armour & Co. (1947)
37 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 Louisville N. R. Co. v. Scott · Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Reid Motor Co. · Babich v. Oliver Iron Mining Co. · Huyink v. Hart Publications, Inc. · Ogrosky v. Commonwealth Electric 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * It was not the purpose of [the statute] to permit repeated litigation of such issues as are susceptible of best and final decision in the initial hearing, but to permit adjustment of the award in relation to facts subsequently appearing so as `to assure a compensation proportionate to the degree and duration of 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.