Tabor v. Levi Strauss & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 902
Relies on Morrison-Knudsen Construction Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · International Paper Co. v. Murray · Linton v. City of Great Falls · Ashby v. Rust Engineering Co. · Nelson v. SAIF Corp.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) Where the injured employee was working on a piece basis, the average weekly wage shall be determined by dividing the earnings of the employee by the number of hours required to earn the wages during the period not to exceed fifty-two (52) weeks preceding the week in which the accident occurred and by multiplying this hourly wage by the number of hours in a full-time workweek in the employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cost was irrelevant, measuring neither the employee's benefit nor his compensation.”
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.