Thayer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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

1. “Chapter 85 provides a “zone of protection” in workers’ compensation making an employer responsible for workers’ compensation benefits only for “any and all personal injuries sustained by an employee arising out of and in the course of employment-” [Iowa Code] § 85.3(1); Waterhouse Water Conditioning, Inc. v. Waterhouse, 561 N.W.2d 55, 57 (Iowa 1997); Frost v. S.S. Kresge Co., 299 N.W.2d 646, 648 (Iowa 1980). In general, an injured employee’s right to workers’ compensation is the employee’s exclusive remedy against the employer. Nelson v. Winnebago Indus., Inc., 619 N.W.2d 385, 388 (Iowa 2000); Bailey v. Batchelder, 576 N.W.2d 334, 337 (Iowa 1998); Iowa Code §§ 85.3 (1), 85.20.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eischeid v. Dover Construction, Inc.

2. “Whenever these rules or the rules of appellate procedure require a filing with the district court or its clerk within a certain time, the time requirement shall be tolled when service is made, provided the actual filing is done within a reasonable time thereafter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. David Lowell Evenson v. Winnebago Industries, Inc. and Sentry Insurance Company

3. “such time as is necessary, under the circumstances, for a reasonably prudent and diligent man to do conveniently what the contract or duty requires ... for the rights, and possibly the loss if any to the other party affected.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. David Lowell Evenson v. Winnebago Industries, Inc. and Sentry Insurance Company