Bonderson v. Hovde’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1956
7 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 Williams v. Great Northern Railway 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Counsel may even be permitted on cross-examination, for the purpose of testing the skill and accuracy of the expert witnesses, to ask hypothetical questions pertinent to the inquiry, assuming facts having no foundation in the evidence. Williams v. Great Northern Ry. Co. 68 Minn. 55 , 70 N.W. 860 , 37 L.R.A. 199 . But the range of such cross-examination must rest largely in the discretion of the trial court, and we think there was no abuse of discretion in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We think the jury would understand from the whole charge that the only damages they could take into consideration were those resulting from the alleged negligence of defendants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scholte v. Brabec
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.