Witcher v. Capitan Drilling Company’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably American Tank & Steel Corp. v. Thompson (1977), Perez v. International Minerals & Chemical Corp. (1981)
33 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 State Ex Rel. Hovey Concrete Products Co. v. Mechem · Trujillo v. Romero · Wood v. Citizens Standard Life Insurance Company · Quintana v. Trotz Construction Company · Geeslin v. Goodno, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule which has been formulated by us in many decisions is that the scheduled injury section is exclusive unless there is evidence of separate and distinct impairment to other parts of the body in addition to the disability resulting from the injury to a scheduled member. . But when the effects of an injury to a scheduled member extend to and impair other parts of the body, compensation is not limited to that provided by the statute for loss, or loss of use of, the scheduled member.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A. For permanent partial disability, the workers’ compensation benefits not specifically provided for in Section 52-1 — 43 NMSA 1978 shall be a percentage of the weekly benefit payable for total disability as provided in Section 52-1-41 NMSA 1978. The percentage of permanent partial disability shall be determined pursuant to the provisions of Sections 52-1-26 through 52-1-26.4 NMSA 1978.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The internal wording of [§ 52-l-43(A)] [injury to specific body member] suggests to us that “disability” in Subparagraph A means “physical impairment.” . . . [Emphasis added.] [ 84 N.M. 371 , 503 P.2d 654 ]”
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.