Tobin's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Blixt v. Blixt (2002), Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003)
33 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 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Armstrong v. Manzo · Zerman v. Melton
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provide[s] wage-loss protection to employees who are injured on the job and incur a loss of earning capacity from the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'double-dipping' through the receipt of both workers' compensation benefits and social security [payments]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the [Megislature could rationally have enacted [the provision] to ... prevent the stacking of benefits”
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.