39 Ala. App. 481 - Sam's Place v. Middleton’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1995
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 Wood v. Wagner Electric Corporation · Gentry v. Swann Chemical Co. · Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation v. Cahela · Whitted v. . Palmer-Bee Co. · Gulf States Creosoting Co. v. Walker
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence show that the Plaintiff, A. J. Middleton had a pre-existing symptomatic bilateral inguinal hernia which was aggravated by the injury he .experienced .while at work; the said injury producing symptoms requiring an operation, that his condition became symptomatic., “It is, also, determined that the Plaintiff was disabled for six weeks, ■ the-said period being attributable to the -.blow of the abdpmen, and was not attributable to the pre-existing hernia -.which was virtually nondisabling — and it is the opinion of this Court that the quantum of disability resulted from the blow to the stomach together with the surgical treatment which the stomach trauma required. The asymptomatic hernia fared up as a consequence of the injury. “The evidence, also, reveals that the Plaintiff has hospital, medical and surgical expenses amounting to $420.-77. “It is on this the 2nd day of October, 1958, ordered and determined that the Plaintiff sustained injuries on April 22, 1955 as a result of an accident arising out of and in the course of the Plaintiff’s employment, that the Defendant had actual knowledge of the occurrence of said injury and that the quantum of disability was attributable to the blow to his stomach.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““1. That there was an injury resulting in hernia. “2. That the hernia appeared suddenly. • “3. That it was accompanied by pain. “4. That the hernia immediately followed an accident. “5. That the hernia did not exist prior to the accident for which compensation is claimed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Such term [compensation] does not include medical and surgical treatment and attention, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, crutches and apparatus furnished an employee. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLain v. GAF Corp.
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.