Sowder v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMP. COMMISSIONER’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2012
20 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 135 W. Va. 425 - Morris v. State Compensation Commissioner · 148 W. Va. 436 - McGeary v. State Compensation Director · 153 W. Va. 796 - Barnett v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 153 W. Va. 461 - Sisk v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 148 W. Va. 17 - Burr v. State Compensation Commissioner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Furthermore, it has been held, and we agree, that to establish the validity of a claim in a workmen's compensation case the degree of proof is not as great as that required in the usual action at law; nor are the rules of evidence as rigidly observed. See Code, 1931, 23-1-15; Pennington v. State Compensation Commissioner, 154 W.Va. 378 , 175 S.E.2d 440 ; Whitt v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner, 153 W.Va. 688 , 172 S.E.2d 375 ; Morris v. Compensation Commissioner, 135 W.Va. 425 , 64 S.E.2d 496 ; and Pannell v. Compensation Commissioner, 126 W.Va. 725 , 30 S.E.2d 129 ." ( 155 W.Va. at 893 , 189 S.E.2d at 676 )”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board is a fact finding body, and its rulings on questions of fact will not be reversed or set aside by this Court unless clearly wrong." Syllabus point 3, Sowder v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner, W.Va., 189 S.E.2d 674 (1972); syllabus point 3, Johnson v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner, W.Va., 186 S.E.2d 771 (1972); syllabus point 2, Stewart v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner, W.Va., 186 S.E.2d 700 (1972).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“, the clear import of the Board's conclusion, based upon the finding noted above, is to the effect that the claimant was not required to return home for his tools to proceed to the Clarksburg job site. For reasons which will be set forth, we affirm the ruling of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board that the injury received by the claimant did not occur in the course of and as a result of his employment. As often recognized and previously held by this Court:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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