Siscoe v. Cooley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is well recognized that if excessive heat, or heavy lifting, or straining, although usual and customary, causes or contributes to a physical breakdown or accelerates its happening, the legal requirements necessary to constitute an accident are present and such cases are compensable. But compensation is not due where no causal connection exists between the employment and the complained of disability or death.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Waller v. Stone Webster Engineering Corporation · Stringer v. Brown Paper Mill Co.

2. “Decedent's death, as we appreciate the evidence adduced, is not traceable to his employment with the Monroe Steam Laundry; and the demands of plaintiff were correctly rejected.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Waller v. Stone Webster Engineering Corporation

3. “from acute occlusion of the blood vessels to the heart, coronary vessels”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Waller v. Stone Webster Engineering Corporation