Sprow v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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. ““The test is not whether the plaintiff followed a substantially gainful occupation but whether he was able to do so. * * * And the question before the court was not whether the plaintiff should recover but whether he had produced substantial evidence to be submitted to the jury. * * * One who has a serious and incurable ailment for which rest is the recognized treatment, and which will be aggravated by work, motion or movement, may nevertheless be totally and permanently disabled. Although he may attempt to engage in gainful employment, it may well be that he does his work only at the risk of his health and danger to his life. # * *»”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walker v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.