Summit v. Weyerhaeuser Company

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘material contributing cause’ means something more than a minimal cause; it need not be the sole or primary cause, but only the precipitating factor
• While employment “must have more than a minimal effect, it is only necessary that it be a material factor. It need not be the sole or primary cause, but only the precipitating factor, and it need not be unusual * * *.” (Citations omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).