Grant v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1994
5 federal appellate · 11 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 Morris v. Standard Oil Co. · In Re Estate of Hollis · Jurgens v. DAVENPORT, ROCK ISLAND & NW RY. CO. · Mallinger v. Brussow
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Loss of earning capacity is actually an element of damages for permanent disability. It is to be measured by the present value of the loss or impairment of general earning capacity, rather than loss of wages or earnings in a specific occupation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spalding v. Loyland
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.