Walls v. Rue’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2004
2 district · 10 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 Lauman v. Lee · Nelson v. Hartman · Maykuth v. Eaton · Gehnert v. Cullinan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To permit the undoing of this verdict by affirming the trial court decision granting a new trial, would in the language of Nelson v. Hartman (Mont. 1982), 648 P.2d 1176 , 1179 ‘. . . create a bench supremacy and sap the vitality of jury verdicts.’ While the trial court, or this Court sitting as a jury, or another jury, may have awarded plaintiff more for pain and suffering in the year following the accident, we cannot say as a matter of law that substantial evidence did not support the jury’s award.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tappan v. Higgins
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.