Triangle Distributors v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2015
8 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 Walker v. International Paper Company · Lawrin Co. v. Frazier
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Temporary disability, whether total or partial, has reference to the healing period following injury, it begins with the disabling injury and continues until such time as the employee reaches the maximum benefit from medical treatment, or differently expressed, it is a condition which exists until the injured employee is cured or is as far restored as the permanent character of his injuries will permit. Dunn, Mississippi Workmen's Compensation, 2d ed., § 75 (1967). Under the particular facts of this case, we hold that the claimant has not reached maximum benefits from medical treatment, and therefore, his disability, although total in character is temporary in quality and that the Commission erred as a matter of law in finding that claimant's disability was permanent in quality. Whether the claimant continues to refuse surgery or changes his mind, as he has a right to do, and undergoes such treatment, he will receive all benefits contemplated by the act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court had a similar question before it in Walker v. International Paper Co., 230 Miss. 95 , 92 So.2d 445 (1957). Some of the judges are not impressed with the soundness of the decision in Walker, supra, but it will not be re-examined at this time. It is reluctantly followed and the action of the Commission in finding that claimant's refusal to undergo surgery in the present case was reasonable is affirmed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would most probably affect a substantial improvement in claimant's condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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