Hover v. Mac Donald Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1982
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Vernaci v. Louisiana · Jackson v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · Soreide v. Vilas & Company · Mann v. Des Moines Railway Co. · Chicago Great Western Railway Co. v. Scovel
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The verdict is both obviously large and surprising in comparison with the dollar figures of past verdicts in the area, but upon a basis of the evidence in the case from which the jury could have arrived at the amount, it neither shocks the conscience nor fails to effectuate justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * comparisons of other verdicts is of little value. Each case has to stand on its own facts. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gaspard v. LeMaire
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.