Stivers v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
August 2006
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Frampton v. Central Indiana Gas Company · 140 Ind. App. 139 - Kavanagh v. Butorac · Lazarus Department Store v. Sutherlin · Greives v. Greenwood · Persinger v. Lucas
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.
“[One of the reasons for the Frampton rule is to prevent the employer from terminating the employment of one employee in a manner which sends a message to other employees that they will lose their job if they exercise their right to worker's compensation benefits. Terminating an employee for filing a claim obviously has a deleterious effect on the exercise of this important statutory right. The discharge of an employee merely for suggesting she might file a claim has an even stronger deleterious effect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in order for the goals of the [Worker's Compensation] Act to be realized and for public policy to be effectuated, the employee must be able to exercise his right in an unfettered fashion without being subject to reprisal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was clearly discharged because she declared her intention to exercise her statutory rights [of filing a worker's compensation claim].”
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.