Carney v. Hellar’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably Pinkston v. Rice Motor Co. (1956), Holler v. W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Co. (1943)
2 federal appellate · 59 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. · Rush v. Empire Oil & Refining Co. · Fair v. Golden Rule Refining Co. · Cox v. Kansas City Refining Co. · Williams v. Cities Service Gas 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining whether there was a causal connection between the work done and the injury suffered we must of necessity consider the existing physical condition of the workman at the time of the injury. Our compensation law prescribes no standard of health for a workman. It is well settled that accidental injuries are compensable where the accident only serves to aggravate or accelerate an existing disease, intensifies the affliction or contributes to the death of the workman. (Blackburn v. Brick & Tile Co., 107 Kan. 722 , 193 Pac. 351 ; Stringer v. Mining Co., 114 Kan. 716 , 220 Pac. 168 ; Vera v. Swift & Co., 143 Kan. 593 , 56 P. 2d 96 ; Hardwell v. St. Louis S. & R. Co., supra; Williams v. Cities Service Gas Co., 151 Kan. 497 , 99 P. 2d 822 .) If a workman’s existing physical structure, whatever it may be, gives way under the stress of his usual labor, his death is an accident which arises out of his employment. (Gilliland v. Cement Co., 104 Kan. 771 , 180 Pac. 793 ; Harmon v. Larabee Flour Mills Co., 134 Kan. 143, 145 , 4 P. 2d 405 .)” (l. c. 677.)”
2 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.