Hoffman v. Brophy’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Allen v. Industrial Commission (1959), Adkins v. Industrial Commission (1964)
82 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 Ossic v. Verde Central Mines · Zagar v. Industrial Commission · Federal Mutual Liability Insurance v. Industrial Commission of Arizona · Savich v. Industrial Commission · Kilpatrick v. Hotel Adams Co.
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * that it is impossible to determine with mathematical certainty the exact extent of the loss of earning power when it is only partial in its nature, * * *.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Each- case must necessarily stand upon its own bottom and be judged by the factors set out in the statute and others that are incident to a particular case.” 61 Ariz. at 314 , 149 P.2d at 163 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is, of course, a rule that every injured person must seek to minimize his loss, and to put forth an active effort to procure such employment as he is able to____ It may even be necessary that he change his former vocation____ The Commission should also be on the alert to weed out the malingerer, and the lazy and indolent should not be rewarded. The measure of the award in a case such as this is not the percentage of ‘functional disability,’ nor the amount of wages actually earned since the injury, but rather the loss of earnings caused by the injury----”
2 later decisions 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.