Jennings v. Chambers Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 2016
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lark v. Bi-Lo, Inc. · Stokes v. First National Bank · Rodney v. Michelin Tire Corp. · Clade v. Champion Laboratories · Baggott v. Southern Music, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An aneurysm in itself is not considered an accident for workers’ compensation. It is a natural condition which only becomes a compensable accident if it was brought about by unexpected strain or over-exertion in the performance of the duties of employment or by unusual and extraordinary conditions in the employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a natural presumption, or a presumption of fact, that one charged with the performance of a duty and injured while performing such duty, or found injured where his duty required him to be, is injured in the course of, and as a consequence of, his employment.”
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.