136 W. Va. 183 - Miles v. State Compensation Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2006
8 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 130 W. Va. 430 - State Ex Rel. Cashman v. Sims · 112 W. Va. 540 - Pripich v. State Compensation Commissioner · 115 W. Va. 144 - Lockhart v. State Compensation Commissioner · 121 W. Va. 10 - Gilbert v. State Compensation Commissioner · 112 W. Va. 507 - Holland v. State Compensation Commissioner
Most-quoted passages
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“For the purposes of this chapter [23], occupational disease means a disease incurred in the course of and resulting from employment. No ordinary disease of life to which the general public is exposed outside of the employment shall be compensable except when it follows as an incident of occupational disease as defined in this chapter. Except in the case of occupational pneumoconiosis, a disease shall be deemed to have been incurred in the course of or to have resulted from the employment only if it is apparent to the rational mind, upon consideration of all the circumstances (1) that there is a direct causal connection between the conditions under which work is performed and the occupational disease, (2) that it can be seen to have followed as a natural incident of the work as a result of the exposure occasioned by the nature of the employment, (3) that it can be fairly traced to the employment as the proximate cause, (4) that it does not come from a hazard to which workmen would have been equally exposed outside of the employment, (5) that it is incidental to the character of the business and not independent of the relation of employer and employee, and (6) that it must appear to have had its origin in a risk connected with the employment and to have flowed from that source as a natural consequence, though it need not have been foreseen or expected before its contraction. An employee shall be deemed to have contracted an occupational disease within the meaning of this paragr”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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