Miller v. Western Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Vernon Village, Inc. v. Carothers (1991), Bowen v. Smith (1996)
38 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 Bailey v. Butcher · Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore · Washington Homes, Inc. v. Interstate Land Development Co. · Gerace v. Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc. · Victory Sparkler & Specialty Co. v. Francks
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]trict adherence to a wage-loss requirement has the potential for absurd results. It may deprive a physically-disabled worker of an award, and essentially penalize the worker's "laudable" efforts to keep working. It also promotes the fiction that a worker, simply because of his level of earnings, is not suffering from a permanent [or, we believe, a temporary] partial disability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as the event of an employee's becoming actually incapacitated, either partially or totally, because of an occupational disease, from performing his work in the last occupation in which exposed to the hazards of such disease.... Art. 101, § 67(15). It then defined”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The problems of showing disability and causation simply appear less formidable in the [accidental injury] context. The injury, at least to the lay eye, is relatively easy to see and evaluate, and its connection to the employment is more readily apparent.”
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.