George v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he party seeking termination of workmen’s compensation benefits has the burden of prov ing that all disability related to a compensable injury has ceased and that, if a claimant is currently disabled, the petitioner must show a lack of causal connection between that disability and the compensable injury. We have never held that in termination proceedings the burden shifts at anytime to the claimant to prove the existence of a causal connection between his disability and his injury. (Emphasis added.) (Citations omitted.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. McGinley v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · 75 Pa. Commw. 639 - Forbes Health System v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

2. “The ultimate test finally arrived at, after much travail, is that of whether the injured eye was lost for all practical intents and purposes,, not whether claimant.in fact.has vision in the injured eye. In facilitation of the applioatipn. of the ultimate test, a further standard has been adopted: Compensation may ’ not be had if, using both eyes, the claimant can see better, in general, than by using the uninjured eye alone; . . . or, as otherwise stated, there may be compensation if the use of the injured eye does not contribute materially to the claimant’s vision in conjunction with the use of, the normal eye. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board