Robison v. Madsen’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably US West Communications, Inc. v. Taborski (1998), McLain v. Ortmeier (2000)
30 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 Central States Resources, Corp. v. First National Bank · Lange Industries, Inc. v. Hallam Grain Co. · 226 Ill. App. 3d 65 - Arpac Corp. v. Murray · Goeke v. National Farms, Inc. · How v. Mars
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such methods of controlling the course of trial might well overly restrict the presentation of evidence and could prejudice a party's right to fully present that party's case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Malchow v. Doyle
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.