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← 2015 SD 49 - Lenards v. Deboer

Lenards v. Deboer’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
April 2020
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 49 Cal. 2d 652 - Butigan v. Yellow Cab Co. · Roth v. Farner-Bocken Co. · Carpenter v. City of Belle Fourche · ALVINE FAMILY LTD. PARTNERSHIP v. Hagemann · Cordell v. Scott

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “if a general verdict is handed down and the jury could have decided the case on two theories, one proper and one improper, the reviewing court will assume that it was decided on the proper theory.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “This Court will uphold a jury verdict 'if the jury's verdict can be explained with reference to the evidence,' viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the verdict.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[b]ecause a general verdict form was used, we have no way of knowing”
    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.