Starr Coal Co. v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1964
15 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 Nease v. Hughes Stone Co. · Special Indemnity Fund v. Davidson · Special Indemnity Fund v. Sims · Hubbard Drilling Co. v. Moore
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Petitioner also contends that by reason of respondent’s prior injury he was totally permanently disabled within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Act and he could not therefore recover compensation because of a future injury. This contention cannot be sustained. The evidence discloses that notwithstanding respondent’s previous injury he was still able to perform and did satisfactorily perform manual labor. His earning capacity was not entirely destroyed by reason of his prior injury. Such earning capacity as he still had was further impaired by his present injury. He was therefore entitled to recover compensation by reason of such injury notwithstanding the previous injury. 85 O. S. 1941 §22, subd. 6.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fact that the former injury occurred in the year 1918 and that inflammation had not developed at the time he received his present injury in 1943 and inflammation did not develop within 4 days thereafter is a strong circumstance tending to support the finding of the commission.””
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.