Richards Dept. Store v. Donin’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2004
15 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 141 So. 2d 581 - Victor Wine & Liquor, Inc. v. Beasley · 167 So. 2d 565 - Yates v. GABRIO ELECTRIC COMPANY · 152 So. 2d 721 - Friendly Frost Used Appliances v. Reiser
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“caused by the unusual strain or overexertion of a specifically identifiable effort not routine to the work the employee was accustomed to performing.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“his myocardial infarction was precipitated by a series of unusual, non-routine, work-related, emotionally traumatic events and circumstances compressed within a specific period of time, rather than a single isolated event.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“we ... adhere to our previous decisions ... that when disabling heart attacks are ... precipitated by work-connected exertion affecting a pre-existing non-disabling heart disease, [they] are compensable only if the employee was ... subject to unusual strain or overexertion not routine to the type of work he was accustomed to performing”
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.