Holub v. Cootware’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1955
5 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 Hempton v. State · Wolfgram v. Town of Schoepke · Yahnke v. Lange · Dishmaker v. Heck · Imperio v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If verdicts thus may be impeached they have little stability. If they cannot stand because a juror is willing to say that he misunderstood a question of the special verdict they must, by the same logic, be set aside upon a statement of a juror that he did not understand the court’s charge or obtained a mistaken impression of certain testimony. As said in Dishmaker v. Heck, supra [ 159 Wis. 572 , 150 N. W. 951 ] : ‘Any such rule would place every verdict at the mercy of weak or corrupt jurymen.’ Verdicts must be given greater dignity and finality than would be accorded them under such practice. Their impeachment cannot be permitted in the manner here attempted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Olson v. Williams
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.