Stephens v. Koch’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably Malandris v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. (1981), Polys v. Trans-Colorado Airlines, Inc. (1991)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 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 Newbury v. Vogel · 37 Colo. App. 555 - Kinard v. Coats Company, Inc. · 34 Colo. App. 343 - Denver Symphony Ass'n v. Industrial Commission · 33 Colo. App. 396 - Hildyard v. Western Fasteners, Inc. · Industrial Commission v. Royal Indemnity Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a pre-existing diseased condition exists, and where after trauma aggravating the condition disability and pain result, and no apportionment of the disability between that caused by the pre-existing condition and that caused by the trauma can be made, in such case, even though a portion of the present and future disability is directly attributable to the pre-existing condition, the defendant, whose act of negligence was the cause of the trauma, is responsible for the entire damage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the power to review does not encompass the power to reverse a jury verdict based on a legally correct instruction, although the appellate court might prefer other language”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.