Morrison-Knudsen Construction Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 19 district · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 385 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Patterson v. Shumate (1992), Japan Whaling Ass'n v. American Cetacean Society (1986)
127 federal appellate · 19 district · 132 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHilyer v. Morrison-Knudsen Construction Co. (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 908 · 33 U.S.C. § 909 · 33 U.S.C. § 914 · 38 U.S.C. § 4114 (Veteran Skills to Jobs Act) · 39 U.S.C. § 1004 · 41 U.S.C. § 351 (Service Contract) · 45 U.S.C. § 836
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co. · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Mohasco Corp. v. Silver · United States v. Hutcheson · New York Central Railroad Company v. Sarah White
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 385 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The LHWCA was adopted in 1927 as a federal compensation plan for maritime workers, and was patterned after existing state workers’ compensation laws.... The LHWCA is a workmen’s compensation statute similar to our own, where employers have ‘relinquished their defenses to tort actions in exchange for limited and predictable liability.’ ””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Wjages means the money rate at which the service rendered is recompensed under the contract of hiring in force at the time of the injury, and includes the reasonable value of board, rent, housing, lodging or similar advantage received from the employer, and gratuities received in the course of employment from others than the employer.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“benefits with a present value that can be readily converted into a cash equivalent on the basis of their market values,”
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.