Coats v. Windsor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"* * * but the statute is only intended for financial compensation and not for general relief, and some basis upon which to fix the compensation due must necessarily be fixed, although in some individual cases, as here, a hardship might inure, due to the unusually low wage at the time of the accident."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 87 So. 2d 16 - O'CONNOR v. American Mutual Liability Ins. Co.

2. “"* * * it can make no difference whether the exercise he takes is idle exercise or used in a gainful occupation, so long as the exercise is not too strenuous."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 108 So. 2d 273 - Fouchea v. Maloney Trucking & Storage