OK Processing, Inc. v. Servold’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2008
12 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 Herman Wilson Lumber Co. v. Hughes · Reynolds Metal Company v. Robbins · Brower Manufacturing Co. v. Willis · Barksdale Lumber Co. v. McAnally · Wilson v. United Auto Workers International Union
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellants raise two points for reversal. The first of these relates to a statement in the final opinion of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission to the effect that, when all doubts are resolved in favor of the claimant, it must be concluded that the administrative law judge’s finding that the claimant is totally disabled is correct. The appellants contend that in resolving all doubts in the claimant’s favor the commission failed to weigh the evidence according to the accepted standard requiring the claimant to prove the compensability of his or her claim by a preponderance of the evidence. It is true, as appellants contend, that there is no presumption that a claim for workers’ compensation comes within the purview of the law, i.e., that it arose out of, and in the course of, the claimant’s employment. (citations omitted.) But, in a long line of cases, this court has held that, in light of the beneficent and humane purposes of the Workers’ Compensation Law (citation omitted), all doubtful cases should be resolved in favor of the claimant, (citations omitted.) This does not mean that a claimant does not have to meet the burden imposed upon him by a preponderance of the evidence, (citations omitted.) It does mean that, in determining where the preponderance of the evidence lies, the Workmen’s Compensation Commission must draw all legitimate inferences and resolve doubts in favor of the claimant, viewing and construing the evidence in favor of the claimant and the purpose o”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Upon review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission, we must accept that view of the facts most favorable to the findings of the commission, weigh and interpret it along with all reasonable inferences deducible therefrom in that light, and affirm where any substantial evidence exists to support its action.”
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.