56 N.J. Super. 157 - Jacobs v. Kaplan’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1992
15 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 Ciuba v. Irvington Varnish & Insulator Co. · Gilbert v. Gilbert Machine Works, Inc. · Russo v. United States Trucking Corp. · Joseph v. Passaic Hospital Ass'n. · Lohndorf v. Peper Bros. Paint 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * in a heart case in which it appears that a previously diseased heart breaks down or otherwise fails while the employee is at work, a claimant has the burden of establishing by a preponderance of probabilities that the work effort preceding the occurrence of the failure entailed a stress or strain which was greater than the ordinary stresses or strains of living and so was an event or happening beyond the mere employment itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where all that is necessary to sustain an award is that the employee shall have died of heart disease.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“day-by-day wearing down of a diseased heart over a long period of time, without more.”
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.