General Dynamics Corporation, Electric Boat Division v. Benefits Review Board and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Program, United States Department of Labor, Sammie L. Gray, and Insurance Company of North America, General Dynamics Corporation, Electric Boat Division v. Benefits Review Board and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Program, United States Department of Labor, Insurance Company of North American and Helen Sobolewski, Widow of Joseph Sobolewski, Deceased, and the Estate of Joseph Sobolewski, Deceased’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.2d 208 · 1977
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Keene Corporation v. Insurance Company of North America Keene Corporation (1981), Insurance Co. of North America v. Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc. (1980)
14 federal appellate · 1 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 Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois · Berra v. United States · Travelers Insurance v. Cardillo
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.
“[c]onsiderations of stare decisis weigh heavily in the area of statutory construction, where Congress is free to change [a] Court's interpretation of its legislation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the time the claimant was made aware that his ailment was job-related and not the time that his health became impaired.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the difficulties and delays which would inhere in the administration of the Act”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.