Montgomery v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
September 1993
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McIntyre v. E. J. Lavino & Co. · Consolidation Coal Co. v. Commonwealth
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.
“not from an accident or event happening at a precise moment, but from a day to day exposure to unhealthful conditions over an extended period; the exact time of [its] origin is necessarily obscure and [its] insidious progress is not revealed until, frequently after a long interval, the disability which [it] create[s] manifests itself.”
2 later decisions 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.