Segura v. Molycorp, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Mark V, Inc. v. Mellekas (1993), Weidler v. Big J Enterprises, Inc. (1997)
8 district · 39 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 Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · Vickers v. North American Land Developments, Inc. · NM State Bd. of Ed. v. BD. OF ED., ETC. · New Mexico State Board of Education v. Board of Education of Alamogordo Public School District No. 1 · Security Insurance Co. of Hartford v. Chapman
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is possible to imagine a number of troublesome legal questions that might emerge from the type of contract in which the employer agrees to pay, say, $250 a week benefits instead of the $200 specified by statute. One cardinal principle, however, should ordinarily settle most such questions. That principle is the simple proposition that the contractual excess is not workers' compensation. It performs the same functions, and is payable under the same general conditions, but legally it is nothing more than the fruit of a private agreement to pay a sum of money on specified conditions. The provisions of a compensation act may be incorporated into the agreement by reference, but the operative force and the ultimate legal character of the arrangement remain that of private contract.”
2 later decisions 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.