Hopper v. FIRESTONE STORES’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2018
6 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 Noblin v. Randolph Corp. · American Mutual Liability Insurance v. Brock · Knoxville Knitting Mills Co. v. Galyon · Schwartz v. Mount Vernon-Woodberry Mills, Inc. · Murdaugh v. Robert Lee Construction 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Claimant having lost 100% of his leg prior to the injury of November 3, 1947, there was no basis upon which an award for permanent disability or specific loss could be computed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall be entitled to compensation only for the degree of disability which would have resulted from the later accident if the earlier disability or injury had not existed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“legislative intent to prevent double compensation”
1 later decision 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.