Tunender v. Minnaert’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Strassburg v. Citizens State Bank (1998), Kobbeman v. Oleson (1998)
31 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 Glick v. White Motor Co. · United States v. Bentson · Mueller v. Mueller · 167 Ill. App. 3d 772 - Lowe v. Kang · Hayes v. Xerox Corp.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is different from a judicial admission of negligence and proximate cause. [¶ 16.] We have said: Trials are a search for the truth as determined by the jury based upon all the evidence. They should not turn on a single comment made by counsel in the heat of a closing argument.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 851 . The South Dakota Supreme Court reversed the trial court, concluding defense counsel's statement was not a judicial admission. The supreme court stated: The language of a party or the attorney should be construed in view of the purpose for which it is used and in connection with the surrounding cireumstances and statements. Here the statement was made in closing argument. The trial court had already instructed the jury that the final arguments”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test is not whether we would have made the same ruling, but whether we believe a judicial mind, in view of the law and the circumstances, could have reasonably reached the same conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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