In re Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1991
14 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 Western Metal Supply Co. v. Pillsbury · Gillen's Case
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.
“"... average weekly wages ... was not intended to apply to recurrent periods of brief service at regular intervals, in cases where the entire time of the workmen is devoted to like employment for other employers in the same general kind of business ... the import of the act is to base the remuneration to be paid upon the normal return received by workmen for the grade of work in which the particular workmen may be classified.... The loss of his capacity to earn, as demonstrated by his conduct in such regular employment, is the basis upon which his compensation should be based."”
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.