Wise v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1997
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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 C. F. Hamblen, Inc. v. Owens
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The defendant must respond in damages for such part of the diseased condition as his negligence has caused and if there can be no apportionment, or it cannot be said that the disease would have existed apart from the injury, then he is responsible for the diseased condition. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washewich v. LeFave“"The jury should apportion the damages, if they can do so, but if there can be no apportionment, then the defendant is liable for the entire damages."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washewich v. LeFave
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.