Nilson v. Clay County’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2017
20 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 Permann v. South Dakota Department of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Division · Caldwell v. John Morrell & Co. · Day v. John Morrell & Co. · Application of Northwestern Bell Tel. Co. · Meyer v. Roettele
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to employees in employments in which it is the custom to operate for a part of the whole number of working days in each year, the average weekly wages shall be ascertained by multiplying the employee's average day’s earnings by number of days which it is customary in such employment to operate during a year, but not less than two hundred, and dividing by fifty-two.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Workers' compensation laws are purely statutory and the rights of the parties and the manner of procedure under the law must be determined by its provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]his court must assume that the Legislature meant what the statute says and therefore give its words and phrases a plain meaning and effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gleason v. Peters
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.