Helminsky v. Ford Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. v. Communications Workers of America (1950), Gilbert v. Gilbert Machine Works, Inc. (1939)
33 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 State v. Gruich · Friese v. Nagle Packing Co. · Burns v. Edison · Koske v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Wilhelmi v. American Railway Express 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The pertinent rule is. that, in a workmen’s compensation case, the employee’s attending physician’s testimony that the employe told the physician that he received injury in an accident at the employer’s plant is inadmissible to establish such alleged accident, and cannot be made the basis of an award. “The general rule in this, state is that statements made by an injured person to his physician for the purpose of treatment and diagnosis, such as statements relating to his symptoms and feelings, are admissible in evidence; but that statements made to the attending physician as to the cause of the injury, or as to the. place wherein the injury occurred, are inadmissible and should be rejected by the trial court. State v. Gruich, 96 N. J. L. 202; 114 Atl. Rep. 547 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“his condition, symptoms, sensations and feelings, both past and present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“he fell against the wheel in the Ford plant while he was working there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.