Smith v. Solvay Process Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1947
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 Gailey v. Peet Bros. Manufacturing Co. · Knoll v. City of Salina
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, no such exceptions are made as to the demand for compensation. Instead of providing that the nonobservance of the requirement to claim compensation within the fixed period would be excused if there was reasonable cause for the failure and if there was no prejudice to the employer, it specifically declares that the failure shall constitute a bar. It is not easy to find the reason which actuated the legislature in making the distinction that was made between notices of injury and claims for compensation, but the language employed is plain and mandatory that the failure shall operate as a bar to a recovery. The statute is entitled to and has been given a liberal interpretation by the court. It has been decided that the claim need not be in writing nor in any particular form. Any statement, oral or written, made within the statutory time by the injured employee which informs the employer that he is claiming compensation is enough. (Gailey v. Manufacturing Co., 98 Kan. 53 , 157 Pac. 431 ; Knoll v. City of Salina, 98 Kan. 428 , 157 Pac. 1167 .) The statute is not open to any "reasonable interpretation that would warrant the court in holding that a recovery may be had where a claim is not made within the period fixed in the act.” (p. 42.)”
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.