Graham v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2010
2 district · 10 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 Koger v. A. T. Woods, Inc. · Kosmicki Ex Rel. Barnes v. Aspen Drilling Co. · Barney v. Anderson · Baldwin, State Treasurer v. Roby · Rumley v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy Dist.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * *. In so concluding, we have not overlooked our long-recognized rule of liberal construction of the workmen’s compensation law in favor of claimants, [citations omitted] However, to reverse the trial court here in the name of liberal construction would have the effect of making the definition of ‘dependent’ contained in § 59-10-12(j), supra, meaningless. The provisions of this section may not be disregarded in the name of liberal construction. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to provide a humanitarian and economical system of compensation for injured workmen.”
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.