Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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.

1. ““Where coal miner, having a pre-existing arthritic condition of the lower portion of his back, which at some uncertain and undetermined time in the future might cause him to become totally incapacitated, was injured by a heavy rock falling upon him, resulting in immediate total and permanent disability, held, that he was entitled to full compensation for permanent and total disability as prescribed by the Kansas Workmen’s Compensation Act.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Prairie Oil & Gas Co. v. Brown

2. ““Evidence held to show that employee’s injury aggravated condition of spine already affected by arthritis, entitling him to compensation for permanent partial disability.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Prairie Oil & Gas Co. v. Brown

3. ““Workmen’s Compensation Acts are not limited in their benefits to perfectly healthy employees.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Coline Oil Corp. v. Burrows