Flaherty v. Lindsay’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2019
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Kaluza v. Home Insurance Co. · Bergeson v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Johnson v. State, Department of Veterans Affairs · Flaherty v. Lindsay · Klemetsen v. STENBERG CONST. CO., INC.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person discharging or threatening to discharge an employee for seeking workers’ compensation benefits or in any manner intentionally obstructing an employee seeking workers’ compensation benefits is liable in a civil action for damages incurred by the employee including any diminution in workers’ compensation benefits * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“some actual denial or disruption in the receipt of benefits”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“retaliatory discharges (or threatened discharges) and obstructions of workers' compensation 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.