Pearson v. Seaboard Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Steele v. Darlington Fabrics Corp. · Lacroix v. Frechette · George A. Fuller Company v. Schacke · Santilli v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company · Santilli v. Original Bradford Soap Works, 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where any bodily member or portion thereof has been rendered permanently stiff so as to be useless', or permanently useless, compensation in accordance with the above schedule shall be paid as if the member or portion thereof had -been severed completely.””
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.