Chiolis v. Lage Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barkdull v. Homestake Mining Co. · South Dakota Medical Service, Inc. v. Minnesota Mutual Fire & Casualty Co. · Cozine v. Midwest Coast Transport, Inc. · Mills v. Spink Electric Cooperative · Moody v. LW Tyler, Custom Combiners
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The employee must be unable to return to his usual and customary line of employment; 2. Rehabilitation must be necessary to restore the employee to suitable, substantial, and gainful employment; 3. The program of rehabilitation must be a reasonable means of restoring the employee to employment; 4. The employee must file a claim with his employer requesting the benefits; and 5. The employee must actually pursue the reasonable program of rehabilitation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“such employee is engaged in a program of rehabilitation[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“his usual and customary line of employment,”
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.