Jacobsen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
February 2011
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Weinberg v. Farmers State Bank of Worden · Goodnough v. State · Palmer Ex Rel. Diacon v. Farmers Insurance Exchange · State v. JCE · Kuiper v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
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.
“An intervening cause will relieve a Defendant of liability for negligent acts where the cause is one which the Defendant could not reasonably anticipate under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.