other cases
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 449 U.S. 268 - Potomac Electric Power Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · 1980Most cited · 702 citing opinions
any case in which the worker does not wish to accept the compensation offered in subsections (1) to (20), but elects to bear the burden of proving the difference between his wages before the injury andhis wage-earning capacity afterwards.
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Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “other cases” — 786 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
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improvements are constructed by contractors, in which the municipality is not responsible at all, at where the improvement is of such a character that a prudent man would not find it necessary to incumber or obstruct the street in any respect or for any purpose, as in that case it would be clear that the defect or want of repair which occasioned the injury was solely the result of neglect and carelessness on the part of the contractor, and not of any culp