Ensley Ex Rel. Ensley v. Grace’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Gutierrez v. Artesia Public Schools (1978), Milledge v. Oaks (2003)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Wilson v. Rowan Drilling Co. · Merrill v. Penasco Lumber Co. · McKinney v. Dorlac · Whitehurst v. Rainbo Baking Company · Brundage v. KL House Construction Company
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Occasionally an assault occurs for which no explanation whatever appears, either because the assault was unwit-nessed, or because, even with all the facts available, no one can figure out why the assault was committed. Nothing connects it with the victim privately, neither can it be shown to have had a specific origin. If the claimant is in fact exposed to that assault because he is discharging his duties at that time and place there is no better reason here than in the unexplained-fall or death cases to deny an award merely because the claimant cannot positively show that the assault was motivated by something connected with the work. But the cases are more evenly divided on unexplained assaults than on falls or deaths.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Thus, it can be seen that the occurrence having transpired under circumstances such as are here present, authority and reason support the application of a rebut-table presumption that death arose out of the employment. When the reason or cause for the accident is not explained, and it occurred during the time decedent was at work, the fundamental theory underlying our workmen’s compensation law favors recovery rather than denial of compensation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When an employee is found dead under circumstances indicating that death took place within the time and space limits of the employment, in the absence of any evidence of what caused the death, most courts will indulge a presumption or inference that the death arose out of the employment.”
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.