Marshall v. Pletz’s Empirical Analysis
317 U.S. 383 · 1943
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 7 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Bridges v. Wixon (1945), V Subversive Activities Control Board (1961)
47 federal appellate · 7 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMarshall v. Pletz (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 913 · 33 U.S.C. § 914 · 33 U.S.C. § 921
Relies on Crowell v. Benson · Langnes v. Green · South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. Bassett · Insurance Company v. Wilkinson · Baltimore Philadelphia Steamboat Co v. Norton
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the money allowance payable to an employee ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 6 provides ‘ (a) No compensation shall be allowed for the first seven days of the disability, except the benefits provided for in § 7 of this chapter.’ The benefits covered in § 7 are the medical services which the employer is bound to furnish, but that section significantly provides that, if the employe refuses to submit to medical treatment, the deputy commissioner may, by order, ‘suspend the payment of further compensation during such time as such refusal continues, and no compensation shall be paid at any time during the period of such suspension, unless the circumstances justified the refusal.’ Here compensation is contrasted with medical aid. “Section 8 is entitled ‘Compensation for disability. ’ The section deals solely with money compensation. “Section 10 states that, ‘except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the average weekly wage of the injured employee at the time of the injury shall be taken as the basis upon which to compute compensation . . “Section 14 deals throughout with what it terms ‘compensation.’ All of its provisions have to do with the periodic money payments to be made to the injured employe and make no reference to medical care. ***** “In the light of all the provisions of the Act, we are persuaded that the terms ‘payment’ and ‘compensation’ used in § 18 (a) refer to the periodic money payments to be made to the employe.””
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.