Edwards v. . Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Morrison v. Burlington Industries (1981), Harding v. THOMAS AND HOWARD COMPANY (1962)
53 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 Rewis v. . Insurance Co. · Commercial Casualty Ins. v. Hoage · Smith v. Cabarrus Creamery Co. · Buchanan v. State Highway & Public Works Commission · Slade v. Willis Hosiery Mills
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An accident, as the word is used in the Workmen’s Compensation Act, has been defined as “an unlooked for and untoward event which is not expected or designed by the injured employee.” “A result produced by a fortuitous cause.” “An unexpected or unforeseen event.” “An unexpected, unusual or unde-signed occurrence.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““The question here presented is whether, taking into consideration all the circumstances connected with plaintiff’s claim, the rupture of his intervertebral disc occurred on 3 February, 1945, and, if so, whether it was the result of such an unlooked for and untoward event, produced by lifting the plate and handing it to another in a ‘twisted’ position as described by the plaintiff, as to come within the definition of an injury by accident, and hence to furnish the basis for an award of compensation under the remedial provisions of the Act. The Industrial Commission has so found and the Superior Court has affirmed. “This ruling must be upheld. The evidence of the sudden and unexpected displacement of the plaintiff’s inter-vertebral disc under the strain of lifting and turning as described lends support to the conclusion that the injury complained of should be regarded as falling within the category of accident, rather than as the result of inherent weakness, or as being one of the ordinary and expected incidents of the employment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“accident arising out of and in the course of the employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.