Elkins v. Lallier’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1977
12 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 Gonzales v. Chino Copper Co. · New York Central Railroad v. Bianc · Matter of Sweeting v. . American Knife Co. · Franko v. William Schollhorn Co. · Martin v. White Pine Lumber Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That serious facial disfigurement, wholly apart from the physical handicap resulting from loss of a member or organ, may operate to narrow the field of employment and thus impair the earning power, is now too well settled to be open to doubt. See separate opinions of Judges Cardozo and Pound in Sweeting v. American Knife Co. , 226 N.Y. 199 , 123 N.E. 82 , 83 , affirmed in 250 U.S. 596 , 40 S.Ct., 44 , 63 L.Ed., 1161 , and Beal v. El Dorado Refining Co. , 132 Kan. 666 , 296 P. 723 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If any workman is seriously permanently disfigured about the face or head, the court may allow such additional sum for compensation on account thereof as it may deem just, but not to exceed a maximum of seven hundred fifty ($750.00) dollars.””
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.