Schneider v. Strahan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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

1. “"... For the heart accident to arise out of or be connected with the employment, the exertion stress or strain, acting upon the pre-existing disease, must be of a degree greater than that generated in everyday non-employment life15 (e.g., as compared to the more or less sedentary life of the average non-worker)."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wooley v. STATE EX REL. DHHR · Wooley v. State ex rel. Department of Health & Human Resources

2. “If the trial court had awarded compensation, an appellate court may well have found that the medical and lay evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prevailing party, was sufficient to support the judgment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 467 So. 2d 1246 - Walker v. Austin Power Co. · 478 So. 2d 752 - Luneau v. Hanover Ins. Co.

3. “If there is a personal causal contribution (in the form of a diseased heart) to the heart accident, the employment causal contribution must take the form of an exertion greater than that of non-employment life.... However, whether or not there is personal weakness or disease, the claimant must establish medically that the employment exertion contributed causally to the heart attack.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 475 So. 2d 103 - Johnson v. Hendrix Mfg. Co., Inc.