Leonard v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 3 Va. App. 276 - Morris v. Badger Powhatan/Figgie International, Inc. (1986), 28 Va. App. 662 - Allen & Rocks, Inc. v. Briggs (1998)
46 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 Immer and Company v. Brosnahan · Allen v. Mottley Construction Co. · E. C. Womack, Inc. v. Ellis · Dowdy v. Giant of Virginia, Inc.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a primary injury under the Workmen's Compensation Act is shown to have arisen out of the course of employment, every natural consequence that flows from the injury is compensable if it is a direct and natural result of a primary injury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The “change in condition” which justifies reopening and modification is ordinarily a change, for better or worse, in claimant’s physical condition. This change may take such forms as progression, deterioration, or aggravation of the compensable condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n application for compensation based on a 'change in condition' cannot be used as a substitute for an original hearing on a new and separate accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.