Green v. General Dynamics Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

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43 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “observed that both the employer and the employee have relinquished certain rights to obtain other advantages. The employee no longer has to prove negligence on the part of the employer, but, in return, he has to accept a limited, although certain, recovery. . . . The employer, in turn, guarantees compensation to an injured employee in return for the exclusivity of workers' compensation liability to its employees.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 11529 - Pocevic v. Connecticut Distributors, No. Cv98 03570 30s (Sep. 12, 2002) · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 15379 - Gonzalez v. Warnaco, Inc., No. Cv98 035 89 03 S (Dec. 12, 2000)

2. “Occupational diseases are, from a legal standpoint, peculiar in ... that they arise, not from an accident or event happening at a precise moment, but from a day by day exposure to unhealthful conditions over an extended period; the exact time of their origin is necessarily obscure and their insidious progress is not revealed until, frequently after a long interval, the disability which they create manifests itself.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Graham v. Olson Wood Associates, Inc.

3. “the sole remedy for employees and their dependents for work-related injuries and death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Graham v. Olson Wood Associates, Inc.