Hughes v. Tapley, Administratrix’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Prock v. Bull Shoals Boat Landing (2014), Elm Springs Canning Co. v. Sullins (1944)
40 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 Hunter v. Summerville · J. L. Williams & Sons, Inc. v. Smith · McGregor & Pickett v. Arrington · Lundell v. Walker · Birchett v. Tuf-Nut Garment Manufacturing Company
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * ipkg rilie is well established, under the Workmen’s Compensation Act that ‘Findings of fact made by the Workmen’s Compensation Commission are, on appeal, given the same verity as attach to the verdict of a jury’, and this applies on appeal to the Circuit Court as well as to the Supreme Court from the Circuit Court. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * The rule is also well settled that in testing the sufficiency of the evidence before the Commission, the Circuit Court, on appeal from the Commission, and this Court, on appeal from the Circuit Court, must weigh the testimony in its strongest light, in favor of the Commission’s findings. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.