State v. Rappuhn

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a physician's opinion should not be discredited merely because he states that the minor \likely\ would have exhibited a restrictive impairment in addition to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease if he had coal workers' pneumoconiosis
• holding miner employed in coal mines approximately forty years had obstructive lung disease attributable solely to cigarette smoking not pneumoconiosis
• refusing to disturb decision denying benefits when miner’s obstructive lung disease was not accompanied by restrictive impairment
• “This comment was dicta because it was not essential to the holdings in [a prior decision].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).