SGS Control Services v. Director’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.3d 438 · 1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Universal Maritime Corp. v. Moore (1997), New Thoughts Finishing Co. v. Chilton (1997)
12 federal appellate ·
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 Coates v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Metropolitan Stevedore Co. v. Rambo · Bertram A. Watson and R. J. Shea, Deputy Commissioner v. Gulf Stevedore Corporation · National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. v. Bonner · Tri-State Terminals, Inc. v. Jesse
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the injured employee shall have worked in the employment in which he was working at the time of the injury ... during substantially the whole of the year immediately preceding his injury, his average annual earnings shall consist of[a multiple of] the average daily wage ... which he shall have earned in such employment during the days when so employed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when [a claimant's] condition has continued for a lengthy period, and it appears to be of lasting or indefinite duration, as distinguished from one in which recovery merely awaits a normal healing period.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prime objective of section 910(c) is to arrive at a sum that reasonably represents a claimant's annual earning capacity at the time of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.