Celotex Corp. v. Auten’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2016
8 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 Rose v. John Deere Ottumwa Works · 105 N.C. App. 480 - Gray v. Carolina Freight Carriers, Inc. · Second Injury Fund of Iowa v. Shank · Varied Enterprises, Inc. v. Sumner · American Casualty Insurance v. White
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The capacities of a human being cannot be arbitrarily and finally divided and written off by percentages. The fact that a man has once received compensation as for 50 percent of total disability does not mean that ever after he is in the eyes of compensation law but half a man, so that he can never again receive a compensation award going beyond the other 50 percent of total. After having received his prior payments, he may, in future years, be able to resume gainful employment.... [H]e may have resumed employment as a “working unit.” If so, there is no reason why a disability which would bring anyone else total permanent disability benefits should yield him only half as much.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Floyd v. Quaker Oats
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.