Mitchell v. Vondra’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2016
19 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 Dwyer v. Ford Motor Co. · Seiken v. Todd Dry Dock, Inc. · Miracle v. Barker Et Ux. · Pero v. Collier-Latimer, Inc. · Associated Seed Growers, Inc. v. Scrogham
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.
“"[W]e think that under any reasonable view the burden of the trial court in determining the causal relationship between a heart injury of a workman and his employment is most difficult. Certainly he cannot be satisfied in discharging this upon less than the preponderance of believable evidence that the work effort contributed in a material degree to the precipitation, aggravation, or acceleration of the existing disease." Claim of Vondra, Wyo., 448 P.2d 313, 318 (1968).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.