Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
March 1995
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Unora v. Glen Alden Coal Co. · Halaski v. Hilton Hotel · Woodward v. Pittsburgh Engineering & Construction Co. · LoRubbio v. Commonwealth · 184 Pa. Super. 41 - Gower v. MACKES
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where an employer is liable for an injury which impairs the physical condition of the claimant’s body he is also liable for compensation of injury received in a subsequent acci dent which would not have occurred if the claimant’s bodily efficiency had not been impaired in the first [work-related] accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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