Groce v. Pyle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

42 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Findings of fact are required by Sections 287.460 and 287.490 RS Mo. 1949, V.A.M.S. One of the questions on appeal, as provided by Section 287.490, is whether the facts found by the Commission support the award. The findings of fact should be sufficient to show how the controlling issues have been decided. Otherwise, the reviewing court will be unable to know what the Commission has really determined in order that it may know what to review, and whether or not correct rules of law have been applied to facts which could properly be found on the particular record. (Citing cases) * * The Commission is not required to state the evidentiary facts upon which its ultimate findings may depend.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Ozark Lead Co. · Carenza v. Vulcan-Cincinnati, Inc.

2. ““ * * * Further, the terms ‘any employment’ mean any reasonable or normal employment or occupation as those words are generally understood, and it is not necessary that the injured employee be or remain completely inactive and inert in order to meet the statutory definition of one unable to return to any employment. * * * The question is could any employer of labor, in the usual and ordinary course of business, seeking persons to perform the duties of an employment in the usual and customary way, reasonably be expected to employ him in his present physical condition, and could he reasonably be expected to perform the duties of the employment?””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vogel v. Hall Implement Co.

3. “A claim need not state facts sufficient to state a claim for relief, and the original jurisdiction of the Commission is ordinarily not dependent upon statements in a claim. In Workers’ Compensation proceedings, substantial compliance with the provisions of the Compensation Act is ordinarily sufficient. “Procedural rights are considered as subsidiary and substantive rights are to be enforced at the sacrifice of procedural formality.” Thus the claim or application contemplated by the Workers’ Compensation Act does not have to contain the usual elements of a petition in the civil action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Spencer v. Sac Osage Electric Co-op, Inc.