Foble v. Knefely’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Baltimore Transit Co. v. State Ex Rel. Castranda (1974), 116 Md. App. 605 - Commercial Union Insurance v. Porter Hayden Co. (1997)
88 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 Victory Sparkler & Specialty Co. v. Francks · Slacum v. Jolley · Moore v. Clarke · Schemmel v. T. B. Gatch & Sons Contracting & Building Co. · J. Norman Geipe, Inc. v. Collett
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some ailment, disorder, or illness which is the expectable result of working under conditions naturally inherent in the employment and inseparable therefrom, and is ordinarily slow and insidious in its approach.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While the word accident connotes suddenness, it does not necessarily imply that the occurrence is instantaneous . . . [A]n accidental injury may be one caused by conditions extending over a substantial period of time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . Happening without previous notice, or with very brief notice ; coming unexpectedly; rapid and unforeseen; . . . unusual; abrupt; unlooked for.””
1 later decision 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.