Herrera v. Fluor Utah, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2019
24 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 Glodenis v. American Brass Co. · Reynolds v. Ruidoso Racing Association, Inc. · Lelenko v. Wilson H. Lee Co. · Grain Handling Co. v. Sweeney · Hales v. Van Cleave
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“direct causal connection between the conditions under which [petitioner’s] work is performed and the occupational disease, and which can be seen to have followed as a natural incident of the work as a result of the exposure occasioned by the nature of the employment, and which can be fairly traced to the employment as the proximate cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“used in the sense that the disease must be one which originates exclusively from the particular kind of employment in which the employee is engaged, but rather in the sense that the conditions of that employment must result in a hazard which distinguishes it in character from the general run of occupations (Citation omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. “occupational disease” includes any disease peculiar to the occupation in which the employee was engaged and due to causes in excess of the ordinary hazards of employment as such [Emphasis added.]”
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.