Cornell v. Cities Service Gas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1976 · most notably Chamberlain v. Bowersock Mills & Power Co. (1939), Chinn v. Gay & Taylor, Inc. (1976)
29 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 Hurst v. Independent Construction Co. · Gallivan v. Swift & Co. · Orendoc v. Kaw Steel Construction 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... Fundamentally, almost any scheduled injury under our workmen's compensation law produces some perhaps slight, although it may be substantial unnatural result upon normal bodily functions. If it were to be held that all such results constituted general partial disability under the statute there would be little or no purpose in having scheduled injuries. As to this the case is ruled by the holding of the court in Gallivan v. Swift & Co., 136 Kan. 234 , 14 P.2d 665 , and allied cases." (p. 609.)”
3 later decisions 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.