Wolfe v. Mendel’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1989 · most notably Workman v. Workman (1962), Bland v. Fox (1961)
2 district · 24 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Borcherding v. Eklund · Bartek v. Glasers Provisions Co. · Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District v. Armstrong · Kroeger v. Safranek · Crecelius ex rel. Crecelius v. Gamble-Skogmo, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a verdict in a personal injury case is excessive and it appears to have been returned under the influence of passion and prejudice rather than upon the facts or that the jury misapplied the law, it is the duty of this court to set the verdict aside and grant a new trial.” “The question of the amount of damage is one solely for the jury and its action in this respect will not be disturbed on appeal if it is supported by evidence and bears a reasonable relationship to the elements of injury and damage proved.””
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.