Boyd v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Old v. Cooney Detective Agency (1958), Rogers v. Shaw (1991)
28 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 Tapp v. Tapp · Swift & Co. v. Howard · Benjamin F. Shaw Co. v. Musgrave · McCann Steel Co. v. Carney
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That it was an accident is clear to me from the proof. He was reaching in a strained position, and was lifting a box of cheese. While in this position and lifting the cheese, it is apparent that he strained or twisted himself in such a way that it injured the tissues or muscles in his back at a point between his shoulders, for he immediately grasped the back of his neck and showed that he was suffering great pain, and from this point he became progressively worse until the time of his death. He had been in excellent health all of his life until this time. It was after the accident that he became ill, and it is significant that when he was operated on the cancer or tumor was found at the spot where he placed his hand at the base of his neck and cried out in pain.” 193 Tenn. 272 , 246 S.W.2d 10 . (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Our cases are too numerous to require citation holding that where an accident can be fairly said to be a contributing cause of death, it is compensable under the statute, even though the injured employee was suffering from some prior disability of a serious nature. McCann Steel Co. v. Carney, [ 192 Tenn. 94 ] 237 S.W.2d 942 ; Tapp v. Tapp, [ 192 Tenn. 1 ] 236 S.W.2d 977 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think there is material evidence to support the conclusion of the trial court, conceding that the medical experts were in agreement that no one knows the cause of cancer.” 193 Tenn. at 276 , 246 S.W.2d at 11 .”
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.