Mitchell v. Woodworth’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.2d 1097 · 1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2004
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Jenkins v. United States · Wheatley v. Adler
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any proceeding for the enforcement of a claim for compensation under this chapter it shall be presumed, in the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary (a) That the claim comes within the provisions of this chapter. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of his hypertension. 9 In other circumstances, this sort of expert testimony might be sufficient to overcome the presumption. But here the employer's doctors did not have all the relevant facts before them, and so their opinions were entitled to little or no weight. The hypothetical posed by the employer's attorney told the doctors only that Mr. Mitchell was performing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he statutory presumption brings within the Act a death that results in the course of employment when a preexisting internal disorder takes a sudden turn for the worse, unless the record contains substantial evidence as to the cause of the collapse which shows that it was not aggravated or precipitated by a work-related factor.”
1 later decision 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.