Capper v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Leon E. Wintermyer, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board · In Re Nomination of Flaherty · Harle v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Commonwealth v. Phillips · Harper & Collins v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue of whether an employee who returns to his original position, full-time, with no restrictions, is entitled to receive workers’ compensation benefits at a higher rate because overtime was available at the time of his injury, but not at the time of his return to work, has yet to be determined by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court has often stated that the reasonableness of an employer's contest depends upon whether the contest was prompted to resolve a genuinely disputed issue or merely to harass the claimant.”
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.