Caudle v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably 66 Cal. 2d 821 - Jehl v. Southern Pacific Co. (1967), In Re Clark (1981)
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 Dimick v. Schiedt · Pearson v. Yewdall · Mohr v. Williams · Kraas v. American Bakeries Co. · Genzel v. Halvorson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The determination of the cost of certain repairs or construction is necessarily a matter of estimate by a person qualified in the class of work in question and is consequently a proper subject of opinion testimony, when given by properly qualified witnesses. Builders, contractors, or architects are competent witnesses on questions of the cost of construction or repair of buildings.” 20 Am.Jur., Evidence, Sec. 833.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no less than a reasonable jury might award ... on the sharply conflicting evidence in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an amount which is more than the least that a reasonable jury would have awarded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.