Sheldon v. US Bank’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The standard applied by the board-reflected in the board's reliance on Kelly's statement that idiopathic factors 'could not be excluded'-effectively required claimant to conclusively rule out all possible idiopathic causes of her injury, no matter how remote, to prove that her injury is compensable. As explained above, such a standard is inconsistent with claimant's burden of persuasion, which requires only that claimant prove that idiopathic factors were less likely to have caused her fall than some other, unexplained factors."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sheldon v. U.S. Bank (In re Comp. of Sheldon)

2. “"Since the alleged personal/idiopathic risks offered are speculative, they are less than equally likely to have caused the fall as Claimant's explanation of a tripping incident. I find therefore that Claimant has eliminated idiopathic causes for her fall."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sheldon v. U.S. Bank (In re Comp. of Sheldon)

3. “Kelly unequivocally concluded that those idiopathic factors could not be excluded * as a possible cause of claimant's fall. Specifically, he confirmed that those four personal risk factors 'have the potential to have contributed to [claimant's] fall.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sheldon v. U.S. Bank (In re Comp. of Sheldon)