Summers v. Korobkin Construction’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2020
7 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 33 U.S.C. § 914 · 33 U.S.C. § 919
Relies on Guin v. Ha · Presley v. Tinsley Maintenance Service · Langdon v. Champion · Brooks v. Brooks · Steele v. North Dakota Workmen's Compensation Bureau
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Board may upon its own initiative at any time in a case in which payments are being made with or without an award, where right to compensation is controverted, or where payments of compensation have been [modified or terminated] ... hold the hearings, and take the further action which it considers will properly protect the rights of all parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“injured workers must weigh many variables before deciding whether to pursue a certain course of medical treatment or related procedures. A salient factor in many cases will be whether the indicated treatment is compensable under [the act].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. M-K Rivers
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.