236 Mo. App. 981 - Tracey v. Acme Distributing Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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

1. ““* * * it js aiso clear that subsection (c) was intended as the sole method of providing for apportioning and distributing the death benefit to partial dependents and has nothing whatsoever to do with the method of computing the amount of such single total death benefit although the amount thereof constitutes the fund out of which partial dependents are to be paid ‘proportionately’ in accordance with the ‘proportion of his contributions to all partial dependents by the employee’.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dykes v. Thornton

2. ““* * * Second, that the part a partial dependent is to receive is determined by the proportion of his contributions, and that if he contributes three-fourths of his income to partial dependents, such partial dependents would receive three-fourths of the total death benefit, or if he contributed all his earnings, the partial dependents would receive the total death benefit, or the same amount the total dependents would receive. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dykes v. Thornton