Mathia v. Contract Freighters, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2016
20 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 Davis v. Research Medical Center · Alexander v. D.L. Sitton Motor Lines · Modlin v. Sun Mark, Inc. · Patchin v. National Super Markets, Inc. · Ricks v. H. K. Porter, 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to obtain future medical treatment should not be denied merely because it has not yet been prescribed or recommended as of the date of a workers’ compensation hearing, regardless of whether there is evidence that its future need will be reasonably probable. Likewise, such future care to “relieve” should not be denied simply because a claimant may have achieved maximum medical improvement, a finding not inconsistent with the need for future medical treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In addition to all other compensation, the employee shall receive and the employer shall provide such medical, surgical, chiropractic, and hospital treatment, including nursing, custodial, ambulance and medicines, as may reasonably be required after the injury or disability, to cure and relieve from the effects of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that his accident at work, independent of other factors, caused him to be permanently and totally disabled. He must not only show causation between the accident and injury, but also that a disability resulted and the extent of such disability.”
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.