104 Ind. App. 270 - The Studebaker Corp. v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1981 · most notably Heflin v. Red Front Cash & Carry Stores, Inc. (1947), Miller v. Department of Labor & Industries (1939)
31 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 Haskell & Barker Car Co. v. Brown · Indian Creek Coal & Mining Co. v. Calvert · Puritan Bed Spring Co. v. Wolfe · In re Ayers · Townsend & Freeman Co. v. Taggart
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[ N ] or is it essential to determine the amount and extent of the strain, effort, or exertion necessary to be expended as a legal cause for a compensable injury. All workmen are not constituted alike. Some are stronger than others and more capable of doing the same work. Some would use more exertion or more effort in performing the same labor, and because of their physical condition might be more susceptible to injury. The act of lifting the hoods to the conveyor undoubtedly required some physical effort and exertion which the board found contributed to the injury complained of and is compensable, however slight. (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““plaintiff experienced an identifiable event which consisted of pulling an air hose which was ‘caught between the conveyor’ at which time his back suddenly gave way — in his lower back and legs; that such identifiable event is found to be an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“mishap or untoward event not expected or designed”
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.