Sandlin v. Gentry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 30 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An employee may suffer an injury during the course of his employment but at the same time it does not necessarily follow that the injury arose out of and in the course of his employment. An accident arises ‘out of employment’ where there is apparent to the rational mind upon consideration of all the circumstances a [causal] casual connection between the condition under which the work is required to he done and the resultant injury.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Knox v. Batson

2. ““While it is the duty of the Court to liberally construe the compensation statute we cannot overlook the finding of facts by the Chancellor, and reach a contrary conclusion under the guise of liberality of construction. # «8 * * * « “While it is held in Tapp v. Tapp, * * * that the Court must construe the language of the statute, such as ‘out of’, liberally we can do so only when it is ‘rationally possible’ * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ward v. Commercial Insurance Co.

3. “an injury arising from an assault on an employee committed solely to gratify his personal ill-will, anger, or hatred, or an injury received in a fight purely personal in nature with a fellow employee, does not arise out of the employment within the meaning of the workmen's compensation acts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brimhall v. Home Insurance Co.