State v. Cephas’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Zach v. Nebraska State Patrol (2007), Precision Air, Inc. v. Standard Chlorine of Delaware, Inc. (1995)
2 district · 25 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · Department of Revenue of Montana v. Ranch · Martin v. Ketchum, Inc. · Bailey v. American General Insurance Company
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.
“It is the General Assembly and not this Court which has the prerogative to legislate. This Court's role is to construe existing legislation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. State · Walton v. State“"Death” when mentioned as a cause for compensation under this chapter means death resulting from violence to the physical structure of the body and its resultant effect when reasonably treated and occurring within 285 weeks after the accident, and compensable occupational diseases, as defined in this section, arising out of and in the course of the employment, provided that if death shall occur beyond 285 weeks after the accident, the Board may consider such death as a cause for compensation when the Board has a medical history on the case resulting from the payment of compensation for the injury which is alleged to have caused the death, (emphasis added).”
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.