Schaffter v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Shumaker v. Oliver B. Cannon & Sons, Inc. (1986), 35 Ohio App. 3d 47 - Lee v. Baldwin (1987)
38 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 Calderon v. Sharkey · Paugh & Farmer, Inc. v. Menorah Home for Jewish Aged · Trebotich v. Broglio
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] determination as to the admissibility of evidence is a matter generally within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Expert testimony with respect to the point-of-impact in motor vehicle accident cases is admissible if it will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue. (Evid. R. 702, applied.)””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Testimony in the form of an opinion or inference otherwise admissible is not objectionable solely because it embraces an ultimate issue to be decided by the trier of fact.””
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.