Crier v. Kent Piling Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is true that a compensation claimant must connect his disability with the accident by legal proof and with reasonable certainty, but he is not required to produce such ironclad proof as would exclude entirely any other theory or hypothesis as to the cause of the disability.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vautrot v. Maryland Casualty Co.

2. “Compensation claimant must connect disability with accident by legal proof and with reasonable certainty, but need not produce such proof as would exclude entirely any other theory or hypothesis as to cause of disability.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 36 So. 2d 59 - Dilley v. Phillips Petroleum Co.