Vargo v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2018
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 M. A. P. v. Ryan · Smith v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services · Estate of Underwood v. National Credit Union Administration · Ray v. District of Columbia · Lindsay v. George Washington University
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the exclusive remedy against the District of Columbia for uniformed personnel' injured in the performance of their duties,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Appellants spend a great deal of effort attempting to convince the court that the Disability Act is not “a workers’ compensation statute.” They raise several distinctions between the Disability Act and typical workers’ compensation statutes, such as the Disability Act’s failure to allow an individual to maintain an action at law against the employer in the event a qualifying employee does not receive benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the public policy trade-off implicit in workers' compensation statutes-substituting limited liability without fault for the right to sue in court.”
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.