Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Potomac Electric Power Co.’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 1378 · 1979
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably General Dynamics Corp. v. Sacchetti (1982), Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor v. Brandt Airflex Corp. (1981)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 Lawson v. Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co · Janusaitis v. Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department · C & P Telephone Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · American Stevedores, Inc. v. Salzano · Offshore Food Service, Inc. v. Benefits Review Board
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the employee must have had a preexisting, permanent partial disability. Second, this condition must have been manifest to the employer. Finally, the preexisting partial disability must have contributed to the seriousness of the employee's second injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No compensation shall be payable if the injury was occasioned solely by the . . . willful intention of the employee to injure or kill himself . . . .”
1 later decision 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.