708 So. 2d 375 - Chaisson v. Cajun Bag & Supply Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 885 So. 2d 540 - King v. Parish National Bank (2004), 899 So. 2d 516 - Smith v. State (2005)
124 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 617 So. 2d 880 - Stobart v. State Through DOTD · Sistler v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. · Banks v. Indus. Roofing & Sheet Metal · 633 So. 2d 129 - Smith v. Louisiana Dept. of Corrections · Freeman v. Poulan/Weed Eater
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not bound by the technical rules of evidence.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“The workers’ compensation judge shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence or procedure other than as herein provided, but all findings of fact must be based upon competent evidence and all compensation payments provided for in this Chapter shall mean and be defined to be for only such injuries as are proven by competent evidence, or for which there are or have been objective conditions or symptoms proven, not within the physical or mental control of the injured employee himself.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he Legislature in fashioning a relaxed evidentiary standard for workers' compensation proceedings envisioned the broad admission of evidence that might fall outside of the technical rules of evidence.”
4 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.