ABF Freight System v. Montano’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably DiMatteo v. County of Dona Ana (1989), Whittenberg v. Graves Oil & Butane Co. (1991)
46 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 Noland v. Young Drilling Company · First National Bank of Santa Fe v. Wood · Cordova v. Union Baking Company · Romero v. American Furniture Company · Romero v. American Furniture Co.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the statutory period begins to run “[a]s soon as it becomes reasonably apparent, or should become reasonably apparent to a workman that he has an injury on account of which he is entitled to compensation and the employer fails or refuses to make payment he has a right to file a claim and the statute begins to run from that date.” (Citation omitted.)”
2 later decisions 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.