Great Dane Trailers v. Flis’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When Dolphin held in effect that an attorney's fee award is not prevented by the carrier's recognition of a compensable injury-producing event, such as the forklift episode in this case, the court held that the carrier incurs a fee obligation by unsuccessfully denying the compensability of any bodily injury, such as this heart injury, which is found on substantial competent evidence to be compensable under chapter 440.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 472 So. 2d 1309 - HILLSBOROUGH CTY. SCHOOL BD. v. Hilburn

2. “Though revisions to chapter 440 by the 1979 Legislature are said to have been intended to deter attorney involvement on the part of the claimants, that deterrence is to accomplished by enhancing the self-executing character of the Act, placing the initiative with the employer and carrier, and so dispensing with the need for claimant’s attorneys in the scheme for securing just compensation to injured workers.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 445 So. 2d 1074 - King Motor Co. v. Parisi

3. “the employer and carrier, unsuccessfully denying compensability for the heart attack, have indeed `denie[d] that an injury,' this injury `occurred for which compensation benefits are payable,' and ... an attorney's fee was properly awarded.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 472 So. 2d 1309 - HILLSBOROUGH CTY. SCHOOL BD. v. Hilburn