Ginsberg v. Burroughs Adding Machine Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 1966 · most notably Bartlett v. Eaton (1932), Lathem v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. (1939)
49 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Matter of Carroll v. . Knickerbocker Ice Co. · Reck v. Whittlesberger · Dundas v. City of Lansing · Sanderson's Case · McCoy v. Michigan Screw Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The burden of establishing a claim for compensation rests on those seeking the award. They are not required to establish their case by positive, direct evidence; in many cases that would be impossible; they may prove their case by circumstantial evidence as other cases are established. The board is the trier of the facts, and weighs and measures the conflicting testimony, medical as well as lay. Deem v. Kalamazoo Paper Co., 189 Mich. 665 ; Perdew v. Nufer Cedar Co., 201 Mich. 520 . It is the province of the board to draw the legitimate inferences from the established facts and to weigh the probabilities from such established facts. Wilson v. Phoenix Furniture Co., 201 Mich. 531 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If an inference favorable to the applicant can only be arrived at by conjecture or speculation the applicant may not recover. So if there are two or more inferences equally consistent with the facts, arising out of the established facts, the applicant must fail. McCoy v. Michigan Screw Co., 180 Mich. 454 (L. R. A. 1916A, 323); Draper v. Regents of University, 195 Mich. 449 ,” — and further citing cáses in other jurisdictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thier v. Widdifield
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.