Hannah v. Kellerman Mining Company’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the case at bar, there was no evidence, and the trial court so found, that the deceased had overexerted himself or had been overexposed to extreme heat prior to his death. Furthermore there was no medical evidence of what caused deceased’s death. As found by the trial court, for ought that appeared from the evidence, the deceased died from natural', causes. “The evidence does not establish that the job killed the deceased in this case, and to find otherwise would indeed be-saying that the legislature, when it enacted the Workmen’s Compensation statute, wrote a life insurance policy for every employee covered under it. “For this court to decide contrary to-the findings of the trial court would require that we resort to conjecture and surmise in reaching a decision that deceased died as a result of a job-connected accident. This we cannot do.” ( 237 So.2d at page 870 )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Alco Mining Company

2. ““ ‘ * * *, the burden was on plaintiff to reasonably satisfy the trial court by competent evidence (1) that her husband sustained a personal injury, (2) which was caused by an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, and (3) to show by the same character of evidence a causal connection between the injury so received and death. There must be legal evidence of the facts necessary to relief. The conclusion of the trial court must not be allowed to rest on surmise.’ ” ( 237 So.2d 869 )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Alco Mining Company