Hackley v. Dalles Nursing Home’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2008
16 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 Standard Roofing & Material Co. v. Mosley · Corzine v. Traders Compress · Burch v. Slick · In Re Greer · Skaggs v. Bennett Van & Storage, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence as to the occurrence of the accident was contradicted by the employer who testified that the happening of a fall was not ‘mentioned’ to her either by claimant or the other nurses; claimant did not, at the time of her alleged accident, ‘appear to be injured in any way’. An adjuster for the insurance carrier related that claimant’s witness could not have been able physically to see the fall from the place where she said she was standing when the injury allegedly occurred. The report of several physicians corroborated the employer’s testimony that claimant did not sustain an injury. “The State Industrial Court has the power to weigh the evidence and pass upon the credibility of witnesses appearing before it. Much like a jury it may draw reasonable inferences from facts and circumstances adduced. It is aláo at liberty to refuse credence to any portion of the testimony deemed unworthy of belief and is not compelled to accord credence to the greater amount of evidence as against the lesser. Standard Roofing & Material Co. v. Mosley, 176 Okl. 517 , 56 P.2d 847 ; Burch v. Slick, 167 Okl. 639 , 31 P.2d 110 . In Hanes v. Magnolia Pipe Line Co. et al., 194 Okl. 657 , 154 P.2d 53 , this Court held: “ ‘Where an accidental injury is an issue and the evidence thereon is in conflict, the State Industrial Commission is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given to their testimony.’ “As shown by our outline of the evidence, whether claimant sust”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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