Wilson v. Sorge’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Seidl v. Trollhaugen, Inc. (1975), Tsugawa v. Reinartz (1974)
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Triangle Cab Co. v. Taylor · Bochar v. J. B. Martin Motors, Inc. · Ahlstrom v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad · Rodgers v. Boynton · Nelson v. Twin City Motor Bus 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * [I]mpairment of earning capacity is an item of general damages. It permits recovery for a loss or diminution of the power to earn in the future and is based upon such factors as the plaintiff's age, life expectancy, health, habits, occupation, talents, skill, experience, training, and industry. It is within the province of the jury to weigh all these elements and, guided by experience and common sense, to arrive at the proper monetary value of plaintiff's loss without recourse to his past earnings."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * Loss of earnings is an item of special .damages. As such, the loss must be specifically pleaded and proved.””
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.