Yessler v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1976
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Stillman v. Hirsch · Slayden v. Palmo · International & Great Northern Railroad v. Butcher · West Texas Coaches, Inc. v. Madi · Capitol Hotel Co. v. Rittenberry
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Butcher opinion reasoned that: “The injuries which would produce a future effect upon his physical or mental health would necessarily cause the impairment of his ability or capacity to pursue a calling that he otherwise could have pursued, and such physical and mental impairment as would have the effect in the future to prevent Butcher from pursuing any vocation that he might have chosen would decrease his ability to labor and earn money. The elements of the last three propositions are so blended in their effects upon the sufferer that they are not capable of separation so as to admit of distinct compensation. The decreased capacity to labor and earn money would necessarily be a result of the impairment of physical and mental health, and would be embraced in the incapacity to follow the calling he might otherwise have chosen. Incapacity to earn money could result from nothing except physical or mental injury, and would be embraced in incapacity to pursue any desirable vocation . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The conversation amounted in effect to an expression of an opinion by bystanders upon one of the ultimate issues the jury was impaneled to try under instructions * * * there is apparently some divergence of view among American courts upon this question, but none in Texas, so far as our investigation reveals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barber v. Anderson“Even in states where such evidence is admitted, the rule is usually applied only in those cases where the opinion is closely related to the facts and implies the `statement of a fact clearly in conflict with the testimony of the witness on the stand.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barber v. Anderson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.