Ackerman v. Lauver’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Larsen v. United Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Des Moines (1981), Schulist v. Blue Cross of Iowa (1983)
4 federal appellate · 25 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 Hamilton v. Wosepka · Peters v. Peters · Atlantic Veneer Corporation v. Sears · Whewell v. Dobson · Ives v. Swift & Company
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Amendments may be allowed at any time before the case is finally decided, even after completion of the evidence; but they should not be allowed under Rule 88 after a responsive pleading has been filed, if they substantially change the issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burns v. Rodriquez
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.