Ford v. A. E. Dick Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently December 1983 · most notably Hartig v. American Ice Co. (1927), Johnston v. Payne-Yost Construction Co. (1928)
3 federal appellate · 77 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 Vorbnoff v. Mesta Machine Co. · Kuca v. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. · McCauley v. Imperial Woolen Co. · Travellers' Ins Co v. McConkey · Flucker v. Carnegie Steel Co.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““if the evidence relied on by the claimant was one-sided and conclusively showed a self-inflicted injury or suicide .... Here, it cannot be said as a matter of law that the award in [claimant’s] favor entirely lacks evidential support; no more can it be held that the evidence relied on by the other side [to rebut the presumption against suicide] is ‘so clear, positive, credible, and uncontradicted,’ or so ‘indisputable in weight’ as to justify the court below in holding that the employer had sustained the burden put on it....” Id. at 288 Pa. 149 -50, 135 A. at 907 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.