Jodon v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2004
12 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 Weidner v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Hartman v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Ball v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · 34 Pa. Commw. 630 - Poli v. WORK. COMP. APPEAL BOARD · Vovericz v. Commonwealth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The injury complained of was not one that arose from an objectively ascertainable occurrence. This is not a case of a person felling or being struck by a piece of equipment, which possibly could have been evidenced, directly or circumstantially, by sources independent of the claimant. In the instant case, even the place and cause of the injury depend exclusively on the claimants credibility for their proof. Further, the medical opinion that the claimant was disabled by the injury was derived from the subjective complaints of the claimant. Therefore, that opinion also rested on the credibility of the claimant. It is clearly within the referees province to resolve the question of credibility in the claimants favor. However, the employer had no obligation to retreat from contesting a case that depended solely on the claimants credibility.”
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.