Marnette v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2011
17 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 Butz v. Hein · Thomas Polk v. Ford Motor Company, Ethel Lee Marshall, Guardian v. Ford Motor Company · Jones v. Otis Elevator Co. · Loudermill v. Dow Chemical Co. · Alberts v. Mutual Service Casualty Insurance Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although the medical impairment rating given by a doctor is an important factor, the extent of loss of use does not necessarily equal the extent of medical impairment...." .... "Permanent medical impairment is related directly to the health status of the individual, whereas disability can be determined only within the context of the personal, social, or occupational demands, or statutory or regulatory requirements that the individual is unable to meet as a result of the impairment. "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We continue to hold that a disability may be established through testimony other than a doctor. There is a distinction between a disability rating and an impairment rating. " (Emphasis in original.) The court articulated that distinction as follows: "Although the medical impairment rating given by a doctor is an important factor, the extent of loss of use does not necessarily equal the extent of medical impairment....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“extent to which the facts are inconsistent with the expert's opinions affect only the weight to be given to the opinions, not their admissibility.”
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.