Burch v. Slick’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1980 · most notably Conrad v. State Industrial Commission (1937), State Highway Department v. Powell (1953)
33 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 Matter of Jordan v. . Decorative Co. · Texas Co. v. Roberts
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The commission has the power to weigh the evidence and draw its own conclusions, and such commission, like a court or jury, may draw reasonable inferences from the facts and circumstances in evidence, and where it draws such inferences from facts and circumstances which in their nature are such that reasonable men might draw either the same or opposite inferences, this court will not say that the facts found as a result of such inferences are not sustained by sufficient evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Incapacity cannot be presumed from the mere inability to obtain work. Compensation is payable for inability to do work or to obtain work because of the physical condition of the workman due to the accident. If the workman is less able to compete in the labor market or his earning capacity might be less in the future than it was before the accident, as a result of the accident, these facts should be taken into consideration by the Commission in determining claimant’s wage-earning capacity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Claims for legal services in connection with any claim arising under this 'act * * * shall not be enforceable unless approved by the Commission. If so approved such claim or claims shall become a lien upon the- compensation awarded, but shall be paid therefrom only in the manner fixed by the Commission.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corbin v. Wilkinson
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.