Gaston v. Appleton Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2015
20 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 Mendoza v. Omaha Meat Processors · US West Communications, Inc. v. Taborski · Musil v. J.A. Baldwin Manufacturing Co. · Roth v. Sarpy County Highway Department · Black v. Sioux City Foundry 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the 30-day waiting-time penalty and the provision for attorney fees in § 48-125 is to encourage prompt payment by making delay costly if the award has been finally established____The only legitimate excuse for delay in the payment of workers’ compensation benefits is the existence of a genuine dispute from a medical or legal standpoint that any liability exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[F]ifty percent shall be added for waiting time for all delinquent payments after thirty days' notice has been given of disability.”
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.