Frantz v. Schroeder’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1981
18 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 Dean v. Wabash Railroad · Brown v. Joseph Rathbone Lbr. Co. · Manning v. Pomerene · Van Vleet v. Public Service Co. · Reeder v. Thompson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“barrel of molasses suddenly fell against him and brought him down on his knees, causing him severe pains and weakness about his back to such an extent that he was forced to immediately discontinue his work and call his employer, who, within a half hour, replaced plaintiff and took him in his own car to Dr. Geismer for treatment. This testimony was uncontradicted by the defendant. It is our opinion that it sufficiently establishes the occurrence of an accident and resulting injuries for which the statute allows compensation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * [i]t is only necessary that there should have been `objective conditions or symptoms proven,' and such subjective result as may be imputed to the original objective condition is compensable under the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.