Bellendir v. Kezer’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Engelbrecht v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. (1984), Duran v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office (1994)
2 district · 41 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 Dandridge v. Williams · Frohlick Crane Service, Inc. v. MacK · Manor Vail Condominium Ass'n v. Town of Vail · Vanadium Corporation of America v. Sargent · United States Disposal Systems, Inc. v. City of Northglenn
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to effectuate the [Workers' Compensation] Act's basic goals of speedy and reliable compensation of injured workers, the General Assembly has enacted a formula which calculates awards to an injured worker based on loss of earning power at the time of injury. The formula allows all parties involved to determine with some degree of certainty the amount of compensation to which the worker is entitled. Not only does this certainty aid the parties in reaching prompt agreement on compensation issues, it also aids the state insurance compensation fund and other in-sur[elrs in setting employer premiums.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An expeditious method of compensating disabled workers is a legitimate governmental objective ... to which the formula of fixed awards for permanent disability is rationally related. Therefore, we conclude that the compensation formula violates neither due process nor equal protection.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... in practice, it results in some inequality.”
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.