Jordan v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2021
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Cobb v. Indian Springs, Inc. · Breitenberg v. Parker · McChristian v. Hooten · Clark County Lumber Co. v. Collins
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The ultimate question is whether the amount shocks the conscience of the court or demonstrates that the jurors were motivated by passion, prejudice or undue influence. ...””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““On appeal we consider only that evidence which is most favorable to appellees in determining if substantial evidence exists.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Mitchell
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.