Murphy v. I. C. U. Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Injuries resulting from exposure to meteorological or weather conditions are generally classed as risks to which the general public is exposed, and as not coming within the purview of workmen’s compensation acts, where the employment involves no special or peculiar risk of injury from such cause. It is generally recognize, however, that if an employee, by reason of his duties, is exposed to a special or peculiar danger from the elements — that is, one greater than other persons in the community — an injury proximately resulting from such cause, within the sphere of the employment, arises out of the employment, within the meaning and operation of the compensation acts. The foregoing rules have been applied in the case of injuries resulting from freezing or frostbite, sunstroke or heat prostration, . . .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Aguilera v. C. & S. WELL SERVICE · Taber v. Tole Landscape Co.

2. ““The rule is firmly established that the Workmen’s Compensation: Act is to be liberally construed. (Chamberlain v. Bowersock Mills & Power Co., 150 Kan. 934 , 96 P. 2d 684 .) In line with that rule we have in numerous cases broadly .construed the words ‘by accident.’ An important aspect of such an issue was considered in the recent case of Peterson v. Safeway Stores, ante, p. 271, 146 P. 2d 657 . We there held again, following the leading case of Gilliland v. Cement Co., 104 Kan. 771 , 180 Pac. 793 , that injury by a strain sustained in the performance of usual tasks performed in the usual manner may constitute an ‘accident,’ even though there be no event in the nature of an outside and intervening cause.” (p. 548.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Winkelman v. Boeing Airplane Co.

3. ““It is now generally recognized that what is known as heat stroke is an accident, within the meaning of compensation laws, and frostbite has been placed in the same category.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Taber v. Tole Landscape Co.