Hanks v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably Reed v. Styron (1961), Lucero Ex Rel. Lucero v. Torres (1960)
39 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 Chicago & Erie Railroad v. Meech · Faubion v. Tucker · Evans's Case · Sais v. City Electric Co. · Childers v. Southern Pacific 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mere belief on the part of a workman that he is able to return to work is not sufficient to prevent his being entitled to compensation. If a workman so believing returns to work but finds he is in constant pain while working, then he is not in a condition which will cause his compensation for an injury to cease.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Where there have been several compensable injuries received by employee during the successive periods of coverage of different insurers, the subsequent incapacity must be compensated by the one which was the insurer at the time of the most recent injury that bore causal relation to the incapacity.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. “In this jurisdiction, it is prejudicial error to refuse to instruct specifically on a litigant’s theory of the case, providing such theory is pleaded and there being evidence to support it.””
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.