Aasen v. Aasen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

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.

1. “* * * the questioner need not cover in his hypothesis the entire body of testimony put forward on that point by him or by the opponent, but may take as limited a selection as he pleases and obtain an opinion on that basis.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Storbakken v. Soderberg · Wenner v. Gulf Oil Corp.

2. ““It is true that the hypothetical question propounded and objected to in the instant case did omit a fact, but we believe that the question did embody substantially all the facts and that the omission was a minor inaccuracy. A consideration of the question in the context of the examination of the witness does not show that the testimony would present a false picture or that the jury would be misled. The purpose of such testimony is to assist the jury in reaching a correct conclusion from the facts in evidence, and this court is inclined to defer to the judgment of the trial court as to the weight to be attached to the testimony of expert witnesses. O'Connor v. Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., 197 Minn. 534 , 267 N.W. 507 .” 228 Minn. 10 , 36 N.W.2d 33 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wenner v. Gulf Oil Corp.

3. ““* * * the conduct of a trial generally rests in the discretion of the trial court. This includes the practice of reading to the jury excerpts from the court reporter’s transcript.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Westling v. Holm