Cramer v. State Concrete Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1998
8 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 Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt · Industrial Commission v. McCartin · Wilson v. Faull · 43 N.J. Super. 48 - Bowers v. American Bridge Co. · Nagy v. Ford Motor 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a matter of fairness the employee should receive `the highest available amount of compensation' to which he is entitled, so long, of course, as credit is given for payments received.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The case turns upon the meaning of Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt, 320 U.S. 430 , 64 S.Ct. 208 , 88 L.Ed. 149 (1943), and Industrial Commission of Wisconsin v. McCartin, 330 U.S. 622 , 67 S.Ct. 886 , 91 L.Ed. 1140 (1947). The subject is fully explored in 2 Larson, Workmen’s Compensation Law (1961) § 85, pp. 358 et seq. We will but summarize what there appears: state courts had generally assumed that successive awards could be had, subject to credit for moneys paid under the prior award, until Magnolia by a vote of 5 to 4 held the first award had to be given full faith and credit. Annotation, 150 A.L.R. 431 (1944). That case was quickly questioned by writers on the subject. Four years later MeCartin was decided. It is now generally agreed that MeCartin severely limited Magnolia by holding that the second state may enforce its own compensation law unless the law of the first state unmistakably provides that a judgment under it shall bar recovery in another state. Restatement, Conflict of Laws § 403 (1948 supp.); Goodrich, Conflict of Laws (3d ed. 1949) § 100, p. 289; see also Yoshi Ogino v. Black, 278 App.Div. 146 , 104 N.Y.S.2d 82 , 86 (1st Dept. 1951), affirmed, 304 N.Y. 872 , 109 N.E.2d 884 (Ct.App.1952). “However, in Buccheri v. Montgomery Ward & Co., 19 N.J. 594 , 118 A.2d 21 (1955), our court, by a vote of 4 to 3, concluded that Magnolia and MeCartin were compatible. Holding the judgment obtained in New York must be deemed to bar recovery here unless the New York statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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