12 Utah 2d 350 - Wellman v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Crookston v. Fire Insurance Exchange (1991), Campbell v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (2001)
28 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 1 Utah 2d 1 - Paul v. Kirkendall · 11 Utah 2d 80 - Porter v. Price · Saltas v. Affleck · Chatelain v. Thackeray · King v. Union Pac. R. Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has held that in cases where the facts warrant doing so, it is not error to give an instruction on unavoidable accidents. However, actually such an instruction in most cases is superfluous in view of the other instructions which are given covering the basic issues in accident cases and serves no useful purpose except to add to the length of the instructions and to that extent detract from their effectiveness. We know of no case where this court has ever held the failure to give an instruction on unavoidable accident to be prejudicial error. * * * (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]xcessive or inadequate damages, appearing to have been given under the influence of passion or prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.