Rossi v. Stanback’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
July 2003
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Soares v. Vestal · Curry v. Burns · Swenson v. Sawoska · Manning v. Michael · Ziman v. Whitley
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the practice, if the rights of the parties so demand, to direct the jury to find upon each separate issue, when separate and distinct claims are to be determined by distinct issues. . . . This practice was developed in order to enable a defendant facing . . . liability . . . to protect himself from a general verdict by requesting verdicts on each claim.”
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.