Whittaker's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2009
6 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 Carey v. Fitzpatrick · Lopes's Case · Newell v. West · Blake v. Corcoran · Kirchner v. City of Pittsfield
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the appointment of a legal representative of a deceased employee or dependent... is required to comply with this chapter, the insurer shall furnish or pay for legal services rendered in connection with the appointment of such legal representative ... or in connection with his duties, and shall pay the necessary disbursements for such appointment, the necessary expenses of such legal representative . . . , and reasonable compensation to him for time necessarily spent in complying therewith. Said payments shall be in addition to sums paid for compensation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopes's Case
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.