49 Ala. App. 293 - Owens v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 527 So. 2d 102 - Reed v. Brunson (1988), 547 So. 2d 90 - Lowman v. Piedmont Exec. Shirt Mfg. Co. (1989)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 M. T. Reed Const. Co. v. Martin · National Cast Iron Pipe Co. v. Higginbotham · Tennessee Coal & Iron Division, United States Steel Corp. v. Hubbert · Tierney v. Tierney & Co. · United States Steel Corporation v. Baker
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" 'Whether such restriction is fair and just to the widows or dependents of workmen who delayed action or who had not had an opportunity to secure settlement or court determination of the amount of benefits entitled is not a matter for our resolution. Such is a matter for the legislative conscience.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"If a workman who has sustained a permanent partial or permanent total disability, the degree of which has been agreed upon by the parties or has been ascertained by the court, and death results not proximately therefrom, the employee's surviving spouse and/or dependent children shall be entitled to the balance of the payments which would have been due and payable to the workman, . . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'. . . By accepting the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act, it becomes the contract between employer *Page 307 and employee insofar as rights or remedies for injury in employment are concerned, and all others, whether common law or statutory, are waived.'”
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.