Smith v. Garside’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2008
14 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902
Relies on McColl v. Scherer · Jones v. YANKEE HILL BRICK MANUFACTURING COMPANY · Pershing Quicksilver Co. v. Thiers · Kennecott Copper Corporation v. Reyes · 229 Mo. App. 158 - Meldrum v. Southard Feed & Mill 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. “Injury” and “personal injury” means a sudden and tangible happening of a truamatic nature, producing an immediate or prompt result, and resulting from external force, including injuries to artificial members. . . . 2. For the purposes of this chapter, coronary thrombosis, coronary occlusion, or any other ailment or disorder of the heart, and any death or disability ensuing therefrom, shall not be deemed to be an injury by accident sustained arising out of and in the course of the employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Traumatic’ (derived from the Greek trauma, a wound) is defined by Webster as ‘of, pertaining to, or resulting from a trauma; caused by a wound, injury or shock . . . .’ This is even further confined by the Funk & Wagnall definition relied on in Higgens v. Department of Labor & Industries, infra: ‘any injury to the body caused by violence.’ ” 355 P.2d at 852 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Accident” means an unexpected or unforeseen event happening suddenly and violently, with or without human fault, and producing at the time objective symptoms of an injury.”
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.