Meadows v. Vigneault’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2002
8 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 Cascella v. Jay James Camera Shop, Inc. · Geraty v. Kaufman · Furber v. Trowbridge · Miller v. Adkisson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“court denied the defendant's motion for mistrial after the plaintiff, in his direct testimony, stated that he had been referred for a second opinion by an insurance company. "The general rule is that "the mere mention of insurance is not sufficient reason for setting aside a jury verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the mere mention of insurance is not sufficient reason for setting aside a jury verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.