Sneed v. Colson Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2018
20 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 Warwick Electronics, Inc. v. Devazier · Kearby v. Yarbrough Brothers Gin Co. · W. Shanhouse & Sons, Inc. v. Simms · Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Mullens · Bradley County v. Adams
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellee contends that expert medical testimony is essential to establish causal relationship of the injury to the cervical condition suffered by Mr. Sneed and seems to argue that the Commission must rely on medical evidence only for such purpose. * * * Certainly we recognize that expert medical opinion and evaluation would be desirable and perhaps beneficial to the Commission in most any type of case where physical injury is involved. Indeed it is just common sense that medical evidence may be essential to a determination of causal relation between some types of injury and some types of physical conditions following such injuries. We also recognize that expert medical testimony is expensive to an injured workman and is not essential to the exclusion of all other evidence in establishing a causal relation between some types of injury and some types of conditions following such injuries.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““On appeal to die circuit court and to this court the only question for determination is whether or not there was any substantial evidence to sustain the Commission’s finding and we, of course, in examining the evidence for such determination, must view it together with all reasonable inferences deducible therefrom, in the light most favorable to the Commission’s finding the same as in a jury verdict. Northwestern Nat’l Ins. Co. v. Weast, 253 Ark. 710 , 488 S.W. 2d 322 ; Warwick Electronics v. Devazier, 253 Ark. 1100 , 490 S.W. 2d 792 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.