Webb v. Workers' Compensation Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2014
12 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 9 Pa. Commw. 176 - Universal Cyclops Steel Corp. v. Krawczynski · 307 So. 2d 166 - Scholastic Systems, Inc. v. Leloup · 36 Wis. 2d 48 - Braun v. Industrial Commission · Davol, Inc. v. Aguiar · Department of Civil Rights Ex Rel. Forton v. Waterford Township Department of Parks & Recreation
Most-quoted passages
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“The adjudication of [Workers’ Compensation] claims begins with a hearing before an administrative law judge (ALJ). It is an adversary proceeding, but designed to be informal. The ALJ’s decision is then reviewed by the Commission if one party or the other is dissatisfied with the result reached by the ALJ. There may have been a time when the commission actually heard witnesses give live testimony when its members wished to redo the work of the ALJ. Given the numbers of claims today, however, that would be impractical if not impossible. The Commission has the power to, and presumably does, permit argument before it either orally or in the form of briefs and it may admit additional evidence in its de novo review of the decision of the ALJ. It would surely be wasteful, however, to hold the hearing with the live witnesses a second time, so the decision of the Commission is much like that of an appellate court; it operates from a cold, or at best, warmed-over, record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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