Walker v. Davis Van & Storage Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1985
16 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 Wolf v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association · Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. v. Matlock · Fleming v. National Cash Register Co. · Wilson v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co. · Owen v. Ready Made Buildings, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Turning to other authorities we find the rule stated in 101 C.J.S., Workmen’s Compensation, § 818, p. 112, as follows: “ ‘The right to attorney’s fees in workmen’s compensation cases is wholly dependent on the provisions of the compensation acts, and fees are allowable only in such proceedings and in such circumstances as the statutes permit.’ (headnote.) “In 2 Larson on Workmen’s Compensation, Attorneys’ Fees, § 83.11, p. 345, the rule is stated: “ ‘The basic rule applicable to a compensation case is the same as that for any other kind of case: each party pays his own lawyer, win or lose. . . ’ “The universal rule appears to be that an allowance for an attorney’s fee cannot be made unless expressly authorized by the Act.” Walker v. Davis Van & Storage Co., 198 Kan. 452, 455 , 424 P.2d 473 (1967).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Three prerequisites for the allowance of attorney fees are set out in 40-256, supra, (1) the judgment must be rendered in an action against an insurance company (2) on a policy or certificate of insurance and (3) it must appear from the evidence that the company has refused to pay the full amount of the loss without just cause.” 198 Kan. at 453-54 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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