Stelly v. Waggoner Estates’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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

1. ““Where any person (in this section referred to as principal) undertakes to execute any work, which is a part of his trade, business, or occupation or which he had contracted to perform, and contracts with any person (in this section referred to as contractor) for the execution by or under the contractor of the whole or any part of the work undertaken by the principal, the principal shall be liable to pay to any employee employed in the execution of the work or to his dependent, any compensation under this Chapter which he would have been liable to pay if the employee had been immediately employed by him . . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barnes v. Sun Oil Co.

2. “that the working over of oil wells, to insure continued production therefrom is a regular part of the business of operating oil wells,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ortego v. Union Oil Co.

3. “The trial judge's conclusion to the contrary is unsupported by either the evidence in this case or the applicable law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ortego v. Union Oil Co.