Vera v. Swift & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1962
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question is one of law only. Under the circumstances the court does not feel authorized to say there was no substantial evidence to sustain the finding of the district court, and the judgment for compensation is affirmed.” (p. 605.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Q. Would a fall such as described to you, six or eight floors, have a tendency to aggravate or light that thing up and make it flare up? A. Yes. “Q. It would? A. Yes. “Q. In other words the .streptococcic infection might be lying dormant? A. Yes, sir. “Q. And this trauma which I have described might have lighted it and flared it up? A. Yes.” (p. 602.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Q. So that it is your opinion, if I understand you correctly, that this fall that Juan Vera sustained at Swift & Company’s plant on the 27th day of July, 1933, could have activated or aggravated a preexisting streptococcic infection that was within the body? A. I think it is possible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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