Forest v. Safeway Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2019
17 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 Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Co. v. Kenai Pipe Line Co. · Chapman v. Hoage · Wien Air Alaska v. Arant · City of Anchorage v. Scavenius · Cook v. Alaska Workmen's Compensation 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) If on account of disability or death for which compensation is payable under this chapter the person entitled to the compensation believes that a third person other than the employer or a fellow employee is liable for damages, the person need not elect whether to receive compensation or to recover damages from the third person. (b) Acceptance of compensation under an award in a compensation order filed by tire board operates as an assignment to the employer of all rights of the person entitled to compensation and the personal representative of a deceased employee to recover damages from the third person unless the person or representative entitled to compensation commences an action against the third person within one year after an award. [[Image here]] (e) An amount recovered by the employer under an assignment, whether by action or compromise, shall be distributed as follows: (1) the employer shall retain an amount equal to (A) the expenses incurred by the employer in respect to the action or compromise, including a reasonable attorney fee determined by the board; (B) the cost of all benefits actually furnished by the employer under this chapter; (C) all amounts paid as compensation and second-injury fund payments; (D) the present value of all amounts payable later as compensation (present value to be computed from a schedule prepared by the board), and the present value of the cost of all benefits to be furnished later under AS 23.30.095 (as estimated by the board), th”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The clear purpose of [AS 23.30.015(a)] is to allow employees to seek damages from third-party tortfeasors without jeopardizing their compensation while, at the same time, allowing employers to share in damage awards up to the limit of their exposure under the workers' compensation law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If compromise with a third person is made by the person entitled to compensation ... of an amount less than the compensation to which the person ... would be entitled, the employer is liable for [further payment of] compensation ... only if the compromise is made with the employer’s written approval.”
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.