160 Ga. App. 888 - Utz v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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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. “[t]he issue of whether an injury arises out of and in the course of employment and hence is compensable under the workers’ compensation law is a mixed question of fact and law. The finder of fact must first hear all the relevant evidence concerning the injury and, after finding the facts with regard thereto, render a conclusion of law on whether it was job-related.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cartersville City Schools v. Celia Johnson · 179 Ga. App. 898 - Lavine v. American Insurance Co.

2. “This is true when the question of whether an injury is job-related and hence arises as an affirmative issue in a workers’ compensation case . . . [and] when the issue of compensability under workers’ compensation law as a bar to recovery arises defensively in a tort action, where the normal procedure is for the jury to find facts and then to apply to those facts the law as given by the trial court in its instructions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hennly v. Richardson