Helms v. New Mexico Ore Processing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1974
16 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 Dosen v. East Butte Copper Mining Co. · Lipe v. Bradbury · Schiller v. B. O.R.R. Co. · Martin v. White Pine Lumber Co. · Strong v. Sonken-Galamba Iron & Metal Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the rule appears to be generally recognized and applied, there is of course some variation in its application. Where the evidence is undisputed on the issue, the question becomes, one of law; where there is a conflict, in the evidence, it is one of fact.. Where a question of law is presented,. the courts may make a final determination of it. Pritchard v. Ford Motor Co., supra. Where disputed questions of fact are present and undecided, it is necessary to remand the case for further proceedings. Whittika v. Industrial Comm., 322 Ill. 368 , 153 N.E. 708 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"This and other provisions of the statute clearly indicate that the proper test is not whether the injured workman is able to do the same kind of work as he did before the injury, but whether he is able to do any kind of work."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The question whether plaintiff acted reasonably or not in refusing the operation is a question of fact and the trial court was not limited to expert testimony in considering the question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.