233 Mo. App. 474 - Kelley v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis

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16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This action invokes a well-defined remedy given by courts of equity. No citation of authority is necessary to show that courts of equity have authority in proper cases to modify, reform, or cancel written instruments. On the other hand, the powers of the commission are derived exclusively from the statutes. Wisconsin Mutual Liability Co. v. Industrial Commission, 190 Wis. 598 , 209 N.W. 697 . No statute is cited by appellants, and we have been unable to find any which even pretends to confer authority-on the commission to modify, reform, or-cancel written instruments properly before it for consideration. Any attempt by the Legislature to confer such purely judicial powers upon the commission would no doubt meet witL insurmountable constitutional objections. Klein v. Barry, 182 Wis. 255 , 196 N.W. 457 . While the Workmen’s Compensation Act must at all times be liberally construed to the end that its beneficent purposes may be fully carried out, we find no sanction in the law for the contention herein made that the commission may exercise such purely judicial powers.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Provenzano v. Long · Tri-State Casualty Ins. Co. v. LaFON