Klein v. McCullough’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1967
20 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 Weaver v. Shanklin Walnut Co. · Eckl v. Sinclair Refining Co. · Walz v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Long v. Watts · Schweiger v. Sheridan Coal 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In view of the foregoing, the question of waiver of the written demand needs little discussion. This court is grateful to the legislature for the enactment of section 20 of the present statute, which emancipated the bench and bar, and the compensation commission as well, from the mess we were in touching the requirements of notice and demand and how they might be waived where no prejudice was shown — not to speak of our more or less constant distrust that such waivers were largely established by interested and questionable testimony. This court is not disposed to open another such Pandora’s box of trouble by conceding that the plain letter of the statute can be circumvented by oral testimony to show a waiver of its requirement. That requirement is a very simple one. Any workman, however limited his learning, can conform to it. Almost any sort of writing which can be fairly interpreted as a written demand . . . will satisfy the statute, but . . . oral testimony will not do so . . .’’(l.c.597.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No proceedings for compensation shall be maintainable hereunder unless a written claim for compensation shall be served upon the employer by delivering such written claim to him or to his duly authorized agent, or by delivering such written claim to him by registered mail within one hundred twenty days after the accident, . . .” (G. S. 1939 Supp., 44-520a.)”
1 later decision 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.