Mountz v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on UTTER v. Asten-Hill Mfg. Co. · Bullock v. Building Maintenance, Inc. · Fruehauf Corp. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · General Tire & Rubber Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Imperial Food Products v. Tomarelli
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) Infection or inflammation of the skin due to oils, cutting compounds, lubricants, dust, liquids, fumes, gases or vapor, in any occupation involving direct contact with, handling thereof, or exposure thereto. (n) All other occupational diseases (1) to which the claimant is exposed by reason of his employment, and (2) which are peculiar to the industry or occupation, and (3) which are not common to the general population.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byrd v. Commonwealth
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.