Enquist v. General Datacom’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Gurliacci v. Mayer (1991), Durniak v. August Winter & Sons, Inc. (1992)
79 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Kahn v. Grant · In re Martin-Trigona · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Daniel · Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms v. Federal Labor Relations Authority
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the amount of any compensation which [the employer] has paid on account of the injury which is the subject of the [third-party action] and (2) an amount equal to the present worth of any probable future payments which [the employer] has by award become obligated to pay on account of the injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]ne of the purposes of the workers' compensation statute is `the avoidance of two independent compensations for the injury.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonable and necessary expenditures, including attorneys' fees, incurred . . . in effecting the recovery.”
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.