Smith v. EAGLE CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2011
2 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 Hercules Inc. v. South Carolina Tax Commission · Gambrell v. Travelers Ins. Companies · North River Insurance v. Gibson · Merchants Mutual Insurance v. South Carolina Second Injury Fund · Byrd D. Johnson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Medical, surgical, hospital and other treatment, including medical and surgical supplies as may reasonably be required, ... to effect a cure or give relief . . . and, in addition thereto, such original artificial members as may be reasonably necessary at the end of the healing period shall be provided by the employer. [Emphasis added.]”
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.