Rust Engineering Co. v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Morris v. Morris (1989), Immer and Company v. Brosnahan (1967)
35 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 Feitig v. Chalkley · Good v. Pennsylvania Department of Property & Supplies · Byrd v. Stonega Coke & Coal Co. · Lynchburg Foundry Co. v. Irvin · A. N. Campbell & Co. v. Messenger
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An accident may be said to arise out of and in the course of the employment if the exertion producing the accident is too great for the man undertaking the work, even though the degree of the exertion is usual and ordinary and “the workman had some predisposing physical weakness.” . . . “The question is not whether it would affect the ordinary man, but whether it affected the [employee].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mere exertion, which is not greater than that ordinarily incident to employment but which combines with pre-existing disease to produce disability is not compensable as an “accidental injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“converted into a form of health insurance,”
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.