Thomas v. Keith Hensel Optical Labs’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Parks v. Norman Municipal Hospital (1984), American Management Systems, Inc. v. Burns (1995)
69 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 Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Nevada Consolidated Copper Corp. · Corn Products Refining Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · Federal Trade Commission v. Pacific States Paper Trade Ass'n
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Cjompensation is due an injured employee only when his injury satisfies both the requirements of ‘arising out of’ and ‘in the course of’ his employment, [footnote omitted] These two elements are separate, equal and distinct; they are clearly expressed in conjunctive rather than disjunctive language. Thus, both requirements must be met before an injury comes within the purview of the Act. [footnote omitted] “A determination that an injury ‘arises out of’ employment contemplates a causal relationship between the act engaged in at the time injury occurs and the requirements of employment, while a determination that the injury occurred ‘in the course of’ employment relates to the time, place or circumstances under which the injury is sustained, [footnote omitted]” “Whether an injury does arise out of and in the course of a claimant’s employment presents an issue of fact, [footnote omitted] On nonjurisdictional issues this court must accept as binding the trial tribunal’s findings of fact which are supported by competent evidence, [footnote omitted] Whenever conflicting or inconsistent inferences may be drawn from undisputed facts, the issue is not one of law but one of fact, [footnote omitted]””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“" * * * The decision of the [Workers' Compensation] Court shall be final as to all questions of fact_” [Emphasis supplied.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Every employer subject to the provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act shall pay ... compensation ... for the disability or death of his employee resulting from an accidental personal injury sustained by the employee arising out of and in the course of his employment _” [Emphasis supplied.]”
3 later decisions 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.