Kearns v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1981 · most notably Pinkston v. Rice Motor Co. (1956), Duncan v. Perry Packing Co. (1946)
35 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 Gilliland v. Ash Grove Lime & Portland Cement Co. · Thomas v. Proctor & Gamble Manufacturing Co. · Corpora v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · White v. Kansas City Stock Yards Co. · Barker v. Shell Petroleum Corp.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Certainly all of these cases have held that if the workman is engaged in some custom or habit known to the employer, even if it is during his own spare time, or even if it is during his lunch hour, or while getting a drink of water, then the injury arises out of and in the course of the employment and he is entitled to receive compensation. This would be particularly true when this known custom or habit which occurs during the lunch hour leads to an injury, since eating one’s lunch is incidental to the employment. The break to refresh oneself in the middle of the day inures to the benefit of the employer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under the limited jurisdiction of this court in compensation cases by the enactment of 1929 (R. S. 1931 Supp. 44-556), it remains for this court to determine on review if there was sufficient evidence to support the finding of the district court that the deceased sustained injuries by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment resulting in his death. This is, strictly speaking, a law point and included within it are the two other law questions of whether the injury was an accident, and whether it arose out of and in the course of his employment.” (p. 39.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Circumstantial evidence may be used to establish the claim, and it is not necessary-that the circumstantial evidence' should rise to that degree of certainty as to exclude every reasonable conclusion other than that found by the trial court.” (Syl. If 2.)”
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.