Hilyer v. Morrison-Knudsen Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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.

1. “'Wages' means the money rate at which the service rendered is recompensed under the contract of hiring in force at the time of the injury, including the reasonable value of board, rent, housing, lodging, or similar advantage received from the employer, and gratuities received in the course of employment from others than the employer.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morrison-Knudsen Construction Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Schlotfeld v. Mel's Heating and Air Conditioning

2. “'clearly implie[d] that values received by an employee[must be] readily identifiable and calculable [to] be included' " as wages, it held that employer contributions to benefit funds for health and welfare, pensions, and training met this criterion even though the actual value that employees get from being eligible for fund benefits was "impossible to determine ... because whether and to what extent the employee might use them is highly speculative.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Universal Maritime Service Corp. v. Wright

3. “no more than a channel; . . . a means by which the company provides life insurance, health insurance, retirement benefits, and career training for its employees.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morrison-Knudsen Construction Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs