Carnahan v. Mailometer Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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

1. ““But passing these questions, and even conceding that in rendering this casual service, as directed, to a stockholder of the corporation during the noon hour, plaintiff was in the usual course of his employment, because obeying an order emanating from the manager under whom he was employed, his own testimony shows that he had executed the order as given and fully performed the service directed before the accident occurred. Neither the nature of his employment nor the special order given him by the shipping clerk can be said to contemplate that after he had succeeded in delivering this heavy box, weighing 140 pounds and containing 100 books, as he estimated, at Mr. Hunt’s residence, he would then, at the unreasonable request of some woman whom he hated to refuse, undertake to carry it on his back up a winding stairs to the second floor — an undertaking on which he ‘wouldn’t take a chance even around the factory’ with which he was employed. There is no competent evidence in the case to support the. finding that an injury resulting from such an undertaking arose out of and in the course of his employment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sichterman v. Kent Storage Co.