Owens v. Herndon’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1997
7 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 Whyte v. Industrial Commission · Shealy v. Algernon Blair, Inc. · Parrott v. Barfield Used Parts · Keeter v. CLIFTON MFG. CO. · Bowen v. Chiquola Manufacturing 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“produced by such injury. The disability is to be measured by the employee's capacity or incapacity to earn the wages which he was receiving at the time of his injury . Loss of earning capacity is the criterion. There is no recognition of the elements of pain and suffering, or of increased discomfort and difficulty in performing the work as long as there is no diminution in earning capacity. (Citations omitted).' (Emphasis added.) Keeter v. Clifton Mfg. Co. , 225 S.C. 389, 392 , 82 S.E. (2d) 520, 522 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“By the clear terms of these sections, `compensation under the Act is not awarded for the physical injury as such, but for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no suggestion that claimant's post-injury wages do not represent actual earnings.”
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.