Hill v. Eagle Motor Lines’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the worker's employment is located at the employer's place of business to which he reports, from which he receives his work assignments, and from which he starts his road trips, regardless of where the work is performed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 251 N.C. App. 1 - Beal v. Coastal Carriers, Inc.

2. “In determining jurisdictional questions, doubts of jurisdiction will be resolved in favor of inclusion of employees within workers' compensation coverage rather than exclusion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pilgrim v. Eaton

3. “Substantial evidence is that evidence which, in considering the record as a whole, would allow reasonable minds to reach the conclusion the Commission reached.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Whigham v. Jackson Dawson Communications