Holman v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a fact of which we cannot but take judicial notice that, in cases where jurors obtain information that the damages as fixed by them will be paid by insurance companies, the amount thereof is usually greatly enhanced.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lieberthal v. Glens Falls Indemnity Co. · Johnson v. American Mutual Liability Insurance

2. “In the case before us, the inquiry referred to a foreign corporation. We feel forced to the conclusion that the purpose of counsel in asking each one of the jurors called if he was interested as a stockholder in such company was not for the purpose of obtaining information, but to impress upon their minds that the defendant was protected by insurance and would not be personally liable for any judgment entered in the case. If information alone was sought, it might easily have been obtained by asking the jury collectively if any of them were stockholders in any corporation, and, if they were, to have asked the kind of a corporation they were interested in.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fielding v. Publix Cars, Inc.

3. ““Was plaintiff’s counsel acting in good faith and without intention to secure advantage to his client in injecting into the case the fact that defendant was carrying insurance?””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Palazzolo v. Sackett