Solid Steel Scissors Co. v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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

1. ““The evidence in the case is undisputed and we are, therefore, confronted with the question of whether or not testimony of claimant, his wife, his fellow employees and of Dr. H. B. Thompson constitutes substantial proof that claimant did sustain an injury arising out of and during the course of his employment. “We have made an unusually long statement, for the reason that it appears to us that the Referee erred in his finding that the claimant failed to sustain the burden of proof placed on him by the Act to show that he sustained an injury arising out of or in the course of his employment. “There is an abundance of testimony that establishes that the condition of the place where claimant worked was conducive to lung infection. No one has denied that the claimant became disabled while at work, went home sick, was treated by a physician for a long period of time, never returned to seek employment, and has never worked at anything since the day he left his employment on September 25, 1956. “It is true that the claimant has not shown that he has silicosis, but we do not understand that that is his contention. It is undisputed that he does have a lung infection. The Booneville doctors themselves certified that they found evidence of pulmonary emphysema. This term is defined in Dorland’s American Medical Dictionary as ‘unnatural distention and rupture of the air vessels of the lungs. It is usually due to excessive effort in expiration.’ So it is established beyond question that cl”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ward Furniture Mfg. Co. v. Reather

2. “1. The commission acted without or in excess of its powers. 2. The order or award was procured by fraud. 3. The facts found by the commission do not support the order or award. 4. There was not sufficient competent evidence in the record to warrant the making of the order or award.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dacus Casket Co. v. Hardy