Baxter v. . Arthur Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2001
9 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Vallat v. Radium Dial Co. · Lassiter v. Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. · In Re Hayes · Heavner v. Town of Lincolnton
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In case of serious facial or head disfigurement, the Industrial Commission shall award proper and equitable compensation not to exceed $2,500.00. The weekly compensation payments referred to in this section shall all be subject to the same limitations as to maximum and minimum as set out in section 8081 (kk), (Section 29, Public Laws of 1929, Chap. 120, as amended by section 1, Public Laws 1939, Chap. 277); provided, however, that the foregoing schedule of compensation shall not be deemed to apply and compensate for serious disfigurement resulting from any injury to any employee received while in and about the duties of his employment. And provided, further, that the Industrial Commission created by this article shall have power and authority to make and award a reasonable compensation for any serious bodily disfigurement received by any employee within the meaning of this article, not to exceed twenty-five hundred ($2500) dollars. And provided, further, that disfigurement shall also include the loss or serious or permanent injury of any member or organ of the body for which no compensation is payable under the schedule of specific injuries set out in this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“With respect to the award for disfigurement to the right arm in which a 20 per cent partial permanent functional loss of use of the right arm was awarded, the Full Commission and the Hearing Commissioner took into consideration the fact that the scarring of this arm was *Page 264 very extensive and entirely out of proportion to the 20 per cent functional loss, and for this reason the Commission considered the scarring of the right arm in addition to the functional loss of use along with the scarring on the rest of the body as heretofore indicated in arriving at the sum of $1,000 for disfigurement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Total loss of use of a member or loss of vision of an eye shall be considered as equivalent to the loss of such member or eye. The compensation for partial loss of or for partial loss of use of a member or for partial loss of vision of an eye shall be such proportion of the payments above provided for total loss as such partial loss bears to total loss. Loss of both arms, hands, legs, or vision *Page 260 in both eyes shall be deemed permanent total disability, and shall be compensated under section 29.”
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.