Bolduc's Case’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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

1. “'The successive insurer rule provides that the insurer covering the risk at the time of the most recent injury that bears causal relation to the disability claimed must pay the entire compensation,' ... so long as the most recent injury contributes to the incapacity to the 'slightest extent.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1120 - In re Steven E. Lombardo's Case

2. “Where an employee suffers two or more compensable injuries that are causally related to a resulting incapacity, only one insurer is chargeable for the payment of compensation for the same disability.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1120 - In re Steven E. Lombardo's Case

3. “The [reviewing] board's decision may be set aside only if it is arbitrary or capricious, an abuse of discretion, or erroneous as a matter of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1120 - In re Steven E. Lombardo's Case