Scheffler's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Canavan's Case (2000), Yocum v. Greenbriar Nursing Home (2005)
42 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 Hoffman v. Howmedica, Inc. · Board of Education v. Assessor of Worcester · Cook v. Farm Service Stores, Inc. · Industrial Finance Corp. v. State Tax Commission · Commonwealth v. Pauley
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The impartial medical examiner . . . shall examine the employee and make a report [which shall], where feasible, contain a determination of the following: (i) whether or not a disability exists, (ii) whether or not any such disability is total or partial and permanent or temporary in nature, and (iii) whether or not within a reasonable degree of medical certainty any such disability has as its major or predominant contributing cause a personal injury arising out of and in the course of the employee’s employment. Such report shall also indicate the examiner’s opinion as to whether or not a medical end result has been reached and what permanent impairments or losses of function have been discovered, if any. . . . Either party shall have the right to engage the impartial medical examiner to be deposed for purposes of cross examination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Higgins's Case“"( a ) In violation of constitutional provisions; or ( b ) In excess of the statutory authority or jurisdiction of the agency; or ( c ) Based on an error of law; or ( d ) Made upon unlawful procedure; or ... ( f ) Unwarranted by facts found by the court on the record as submitted or as amplified ... in those instances where the court is constitutionally required to make independent findings of fact; or ( g ) Arbitrary or capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] statute must be interpreted according to the intent of the Legislature ascertained from all its words construed by the ordinary and approved usage of the language, considered in connection with the cause of its enactment, the mischief or imperfection to be remedied and the main object to be accomplished, to the end that the purpose of its framers may be effectuated.”
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.