Wheatley v. Adler’s Empirical Analysis
407 F.2d 307 · 1968
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 3 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 207 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Mitchell v. Woodworth (1971), U. S. Industries/Federal Sheet Metal, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1982)
96 federal appellate · 3 district · 63 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 920 · 33 U.S.C. § 921
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc. · Cardillo US v. Liberty Mut Ins Co · O'Keeffe v. Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates, Inc. · Del Vecchio v. Bowers
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 207 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(r)ebutting evidence may be hard to develop, given the limits of medical ability to reconstruct why 'something unexpectedly goes wrong within the human frame.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"There is an express statutory presumption that the `claim comes within the provisions of this chapter,' a presumption of compensability grounded in the `humanitarian nature' of the Act. Moreover, and this is significant in the present case, the fact that an injury or death occurs `in the course of employment strengthens the presumption that it arises out of the employment, with doubts resolved in the claimant's favor,'"”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any proceeding for the enforcement of a claim for compensation under this chapter it shall be presumed, in the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary (a) That the claim comes within the provisions of this chapter. . . .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.