Keller v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1992
2 district · 15 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 Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. · State v. Sweeney · Albert v. Edgewater Beach Building Corp. · Haugen v. Swanson · Nadeau v. Maryland Casualty 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff’s likelihood of being able to establish a right of recovery against defendants must also be taken into consideration. * * * Plaintiff’s prospects regarding proof of negligence and contributory negligence must be considered and evaluated in determining whether a particular settlement was provident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kolles v. Ross
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.