Yount v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[e]very employer subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be liable, irrespective of negligence, to furnish compensation under the provisions of this chapter for personal injury or death of the employee by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, and shall be released from all other liability therefor whatsoever.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thompson v. Western-Southern Life Assurance Co. · 899 F. Supp. 425 - Whitmore v. O'Connor Management, Inc.

2. “[t]he Workers’ Compensation Act is substi-tutional, supplanting all other common law rights of an employee if the Act applies .... In all cases where it applies, the Workers’ Compensation Act is exclusive. Whether or not a case comes within the provisions of the Act is a question of fact.... [And that while a] circuit court may determine whether the plaintiff was an “employee” [it] may not determine whether there was an “accident arising out of and in the course of employment.” ... The Labor and Industrial Relations Commission has sole jurisdiction over that issue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 899 F. Supp. 425 - Whitmore v. O'Connor Management, Inc.