Wise v. JE Merit Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 857 So. 2d 407 - Nabors Drilling USA v. Davis (2003), 839 So. 2d 5 - Smith v. Southern Holding, Inc. (2003)
69 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on 660 So. 2d 7 - Resweber v. Haroil Const. Co. · 643 So. 2d 752 - Harold v. La Belle Maison Apartments · King v. Grand Cove Nursing Home · Barrett v. TL James & Co. · Rivera v. West Jefferson Medical Center
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing in this Title shall prohibit an employer from inquiring about previous injuries, disabilities, or other medical conditions and the employee shall answer truthfully; failure to answer truthfully shall result in the employee's forfeiture of benefits under this Chapter, provided said failure to answer directly relates to the medical condition for which a claim for benefits is made or affects the employer's ability to receive reimbursement from the second injury fund. This Section shall not be enforceable unless the written form on which the inquiries about previous medical conditions are made contains a notice advising the employee that his failure to answer truthfully may result in his forfeiture of worker's compensation benefits under R.S. 23:1208.1. Such notice shall be prominently displayed in bold faced block lettering of no less than ten point type.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“any permanent condition, whether congenital or due to injury or disease, of such seriousness as to constitute a hindrance or obstacle to obtaining employment or to obtaining reemployment if the employee should become injured.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] direct relation is established when the subsequent injury was inevitable or very likely to occur because of the presence of the pre-existing condition.”
3 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.