Houser v. Eckhardt’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc. (1984), Educational Credit Management Corp. v. Polleys (2004)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 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 Mayer v. Sampson · Daly v. Lininger · Piper v. Mayer
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may testify to his opinion based upon reasonable medical probability as to the nature and extent of claimant's injuries and disabilities and to other related matters ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Ramirez · Zerr v. Trenkle“The rule prevails generally that expert witnesses may testify to the information upon which they have relied in reaching their conclusions.... When presented for this purpose, the statements are not evidence of the matters stated, and hence not hearsay, but are merely explanatory of the opinion, enabling the jury to weigh it in the light of its basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Golob v. People““An instruction should not be given which creates an issue of fact not supported by the evidence or which tends to mislead or divert the minds of the jury from the real factual issues”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dolan v. Mitchell
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.