Hill v. DU BOSE’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Hendrix v. Linn-Corriher Corp. (1986), Pratt v. Central Upholstery Co. (1960)
29 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 Anderson v. Northwestern Motor Co. · Branham v. Denny Roll & Panel Co. · Dail v. Kellex Corp.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“average weekly wages before the injury and the average weekly wages which he is able to earn thereafter....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Compensation must be based upon loss of wage-earning power rather than the amount actually received”
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.