McClain v. Yellow Cab Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2015
7 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 Merriman v. Ben Gutman Truck Service, Inc. · Davies v. Carter Carburetor, Division ACF Industries, Inc. · Crow v. Missouri Implement Tractor Company · Williams v. Anderson Air Activities · Meilves v. Morris
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Performance of any manual task is accompanied by a certain degree of straining the muscles and other parts of a workman’s body. The amount of strain incurred will, of course, vary according to the work to be accomplished and the circumstances and conditions under which it is being performed. Injuries produced by strains which are normal for the job to be performed in a customary fashion are not compensable although the amount of straining may be great or would be considered abnormal in other classes of employment or if performed in an abnormal manner under unusual circumstances. On the other hand, if an employee suffers an unexpected and abnormal strain (at least while he is engaged in doing something beyond and different from his normal routine) and, as a result thereof, sustains an injury which is not the result of orderly natural causes, the injury is (the result of) an accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In all claims for compensation for hernia resulting from injury arising out of and in the course of the employment, it must be definitely proved to the satisfaction of the division or the commission: (1) That there was an accident or unusual strain resulting in hernia; (2) That the hernia did not exist prior to the accident or unusual strain resulting in the injury for which compensation is claimed.”
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.