Spitzack v. Berg Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Sopko v. C & R Transfer Co., Inc. (1998), State v. Kutz (2003)
27 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 In Re Estate of Hobelsberger · Permann v. South Dakota Department of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Division · Day v. John Morrell & Co. · In Re Application of SDDS, Inc. · Petersen v. Hinky Dinky
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person is totally disabled if his physical condition, in combination with his age, training, and experience, and the type of work available in his community, causes him to be unable to secure anything more than sporadic employment resulting in insubstantial income.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We do not substitute our judgment for that of [Department] on the weight of the evidence[.] In other words, even if there is evidence in the record which tends to contradict the Department’s factual determination, so long as there is some “substantial evidence” in the record which supports the Department’s determination, this court will affirm it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We will reverse only if we are definitely and firmly convinced that a mistake has been made.”
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.