Webb v. New Mexico Pub. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Tallman v. ABF (Arkansas Best Freight) (1988), Sanchez v. Homestake Mining Co. (1985)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 83 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 33 U.S.C. § 902
Relies on Victory Sparkler & Specialty Co. v. Francks · G. L. Eastman Co. v. Industrial Acc. Com. · Stevenson v. Lee Moor Contracting Co. · Pierce v. Phelps Dodge Corp. · Ciocca v. National Sugar Refining Co. of N.J.
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * True, there must be a time when it can be said with certainty that a compensable accidental injury has been inflicted; but the cause and the coming into existence of the evidence characterizing it as a compensable one, need not be simultaneous events. An injury may be gradual and progressive, and not immediately discoverable; yet certainly and definitely progress to discovery and then to a compensable injury. * * * ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'an unlooked for mishap, or an untoward event which is not expected or designed,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is asserted that appellant's injury was not accidental, in that it could not be traced to a definite time, place, and cause. The injury to appellant occurred upon a day certain, and was the proximate result of breathing poisonous fumes and gases in excessive quantities for seven specific hours on that particular day, while working in the course of his employment. It is not necessary that the injury should result momentarily, to be accidental. It may be the result of hours, even a day, or longer, of breathing or inhaling gases, depending upon the facts of the case. (Citations omitted.) The time, place and cause were definite and certain."”
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.