50 Va. App. 199 - Hoffman v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 10 Va. App. 211 - R. G. Moore Building Corp. v. Mullins · Morris v. Morris · Celanese Fibers Co. v. Johnson · 7 Va. App. 217 - Westmoreland Coal Co. v. Campbell · Bass v. City of Richmond Police Department
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, if an employer has three or more employees “regularly in service,” it is subject to the Act and responsible for providing workers’ compensation benefits to qualifying employees. If an employer has fewer than three employees “regularly in service,” it is not subject to the Act and has no obligation to provide its employees with workers’ compensation benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“However, if the expert medical witnesses cannot testify that it is at least more probable than not that the disease arose out of and in the course of employment, compensation must and should be denied. ... We have not imposed the formal requirement that a claimant’s medical expert proffer an opinion that includes the ta.1isma.nic words “reasonable medical certainty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“focus ultimately on ‘the character of the business' rather than 'the character of the employment relationship'”
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.