952 So. 2d 972 - Flowers v. PERS’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Goss v. Lopez · 604 So. 2d 312 - McGowan v. Miss. State Oil & Gas Bd. · PERS v. Howard · 797 So. 2d 830 - Dean v. Public Emp. Retirement System · 748 So. 2d 181 - Burns v. PERS OF MISS.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a thorough set of findings and conclusions explain the expertise that those physicians applied, we find no fault in relying on such expertise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]art of the benefit of having physicians on the Disability Appeals Committee is so that they can analyze the medical claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Upon the application of a member or his employer, any active member in state service who has at least four (4) years of membership service credit may be retired by the board of trustees . . . provided that the medical board, after an evaluation of medical evidence that may or may not include an actual physical examination by the medical board, shall certify that the member is mentally or physically incapacitated for the further performance of duty, that such incapacity is likely to be permanent, and that the member should be retired; however, the board of trustees may accept a disability medical determination from the Social Security Administration in lieu of a certification from the medical board. For the purposes of disability determination, the medical board shall apply the following definition of disability: the inability to perform the usual duties of employment or the incapacity to perform such lesser duties, if any, as the employer, in its discretion, may assign without material reduction in compensation, or the incapacity to perform the duties of any employment covered by [PERS] that is actually offered and is within the same general territorial work area, without material reduction in compensation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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