Anderson v. MacKey’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. “In all cases where the defendants deny that an alleged disability is a natural and direct result of the accident, the workman must establish that causal connection as a medical probability by expert medical testimony. No award of compensation shall be based on speculation or on expert testimony that as a medical possibility the causal connection exists.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Turner Ex Rel. Turner v. New Mexico State Highway Department · Bufalino v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

2. “[the expert] acknowledges that she does have pain and that she does have a psychological disability, and so far as I can find the record is totally silent as to even a fair inference from his testimony, that he’s saying that there is a causal connection. In fact, I think he just expresses no opinion as to the cause of the psychological disability.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Turner Ex Rel. Turner v. New Mexico State Highway Department

3. “Q. And what is that disability, Doctor? A. I think she has a psychological disability. Q. And what is that psychological disability? A. Well, I am not properly — not properly trained — I am not trained in psychological diagnosis or psychology to put a name on it exactly, but it is some type of hysteria or conversion reaction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Turner Ex Rel. Turner v. New Mexico State Highway Department