Rank v. Lindblom’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2022
14 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 Permann v. South Dakota Department of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Division · Bumble Bee Seafoods v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · State, Division of Human Rights Ex Rel. Miller v. Miller · Hanson v. Penrod Construction Co. · Nash Finch Co. v. South Dakota Department of Revenue
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person is totally disabled if his physical condition, in combination with his age, training, and experience, and the type of work available in his community, causes him to be unable to secure anything more than sporadic employment resulting in insubstantial income.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The employer shall provide necessary first aid, medical, surgical, and hospital services, or other suitable and proper care including medical and surgical supplies, apparatus, artificial members and body aids during the disability or treatment of an employee within the provisions of this title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“There may be instances where preoperative care must be covered under workers’ compensation insurance, such as in emergency situations or where the treatment for nonwork related disease would be unnecessary but for the work related injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.