Evans v. Continental Grain Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2018
18 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 Central Electric Power Ass'n v. Hicks · RATHBORNE, H. & R. BOX CO. v. Green · Lucedale Veneer Co. v. Rogers · Deemer Lumber Co. v. Hamilton · M. T. Reed Construction Co. v. Garrett
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although there is some slight evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made by the Commission in its findings of fact and in its application of the [Workers' Compensation] Act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“those normal degenerative effects accompanying age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.