Walker v. Saturn Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2021
14 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 Corcoran v. Foster Auto GMC, Inc. · Roberson v. Loretto Casket Co. · Galloway v. Memphis Drum Service · Hinson v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. · Wilkes v. Resource Authority of Sumner County
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An anatomical impairment rating is not always indispensable to a trial court’s finding of a permanent vocational impairment. In fact, anatomical impairment is distinct from the ultimate issue of vocational disability that the trial court must assess. An employee should not be denied compensation solely because she is unable to present a witness who will testify to the exact percentage of her medical impairment. (Citations omitted.) [[Image here]] The Panel correctly held that a vocational impairment is measured not by whether the employee can return to her former job, but whether she has suffered a decrease in her ability to earn a living. See Corcoran, 746 S.W.2d at 458 . This Court stated in Corcoran that a vocational disability results when “the employee’s ability to earn wages in any form of employment that would have been available to him in an uninjured condition is diminished by an injury.” Id. at 459 . In assessing the extent of an employee’s vocational disability, the trial court may consider the employee’s skills and training, education, age, local job opportunities, anatomical impairment rating, and her capacity to work at the kinds of employment available in her disabled condition. Further, the claimant’s own assessment of her physical condition and resulting disabilities cannot be disregarded. The trial court is not bound to accept physicians’ opinions regarding the extent of the plaintiffs disability, but should consider all the evidence, both expert and lay te”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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