Bannister v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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

1. “The defendant takes the position that if it be required to make the payments provided for in the award and the Supreme Court should ultimately reverse the Order and judgment of this Court and set aside the award that it would have no way of recovering the payments finally determined not to be due and owing by it, and therefore if Section 60, supra , be so construed as to require the payments of such award during the pendency of its appeal that said Section would deprive it of the equal protection of law, and would therefore be unconstitutional. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bagwell v. ERNEST BURWELL, INC.

2. “Upon consideration of Defendant's first ground of objection, at first glance it does seem unfair to require the payment of the award during the pendency of an appeal, especially so, when there is no way prescribed for its recovery in the event the award should be set aside.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. SPRINGS COTTON MILLS

3. “* * * and thereafter the employer shall be required to make payment of the award involved in the appeal or certification until the questions at issue therein shall have been fully determined * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bagwell v. ERNEST BURWELL, INC.