Maland v. Tesdall’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1991 · most notably Shover v. Iowa Lutheran Hospital (1961), Thornbury v. Maley (1951)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Powell v. Commonwealth · Low v. Ford Hopkins Company · McDonald v. Dodge · Rian v. Hegnauer · Anderson v. High
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it was proper for appellee to show the use of liquor by the driver and the other occupants of the car on the night of the accident, we think the bounds of propriety were exceeded. A prejudicial course of examination was pursued. Incompetent questions which assumed the existence of damaging facts were frequently asked. The questions and not the answers seem to have been considered important. Such questions were repeated despite the sustaining of objections thereto. See 39 Am. Jur. 80 , 81, section 65. As bearing generally on some of the matters discussed herein, see Annotations 4 A. L. R. 414 and 78 A. L. R. 1438.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A trial should be a dignified presentation of issues, a good-faith effort to ascertain the truth upon which the rights of litigants depend, and not a display of ill will or ridicule. Whatever does not contribute to the proper purposes of the trial should be scrupulously avoided. Anderson v. High, 211 Minn. 227 , 300 N. W. 597, 600 ; Rian v. Hegnauer, 210 Minn. 607 , 299 N. W. 673, 674, 675 .””
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.