Beck v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2017
17 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 Humphrey v. David Witherspoon, Inc. · Jose v. Equifax, Inc. · Bell v. Kelso Oil Co. · Hudson v. Thurston Motor Lines, Inc. · Allied Chemical Corp. v. Wells
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the trial judge has seen and heard witnesses, especially where issues of credibility and weight of oral testimony are involved, on review considerable deference must still be accorded to those circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While there is no evidence that the assailant was there for any business reason, the evidence shows that the assailant attacked Plaintiff after she, as a duty of her employment, asked the assailant to move his improperly parked car. Just as no one could ever know the full intent of the assailant in Jesse , no one will ever know the full intent of Plaintiff's assailant. But, as in Jesse , Plaintiff's indiscriminate exposure to the general public was one of the conditions under which her work was required to be performed, and the actions of persons on those premises can be considered a hazard of the employment. We therefore find a causal relationship existed between Plaintiff's employment and the August 7, 1987 assault, and that Plaintiff suffered a compensable accidental injury within the statutory definition of the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Id. at 370 . The Beck court pointed out: The circumstances of the present case do not fall within the category of everyday stress and strain as found in [two prior Tennessee cases]. Plaintiff in the case at bar ... can point to a specific, acute, sudden, and unexpected stressful event precipitating her injury. Plaintiff was accosted and physically grabbed by a stranger. Such a sexual assault is not an everyday workplace occurrence and is not within the scope of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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