Sunbeam Corp. v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
October 1991
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Glass v. Edens · Barksdale Lumber Co. v. McAnally · Grant v. State · M. M. Cohn Co. v. Haile · International Paper Company v. McGoogan
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Total Disability. In case of total disability there shall be paid to the injured employee during the continuance of such total disability sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of his average weekly pay. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.