Boldt v. Jostens, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2024
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Insurance Company of North America v. Myers · Hiber v. City of St. Paul · Pittman v. Pillsbury Flour Mills, Inc. · Zappa v. Charles Manufacturing Co. · Sullivan v. Hagstrom Construction 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Read in isolation, some of the doctor’s statements appear to support their [Rela-tors] position. In seeking the real meaning of his testimony, however, the caution with which medical experts render opinions should be recognized. As Professor Larson states: “ * * * It is a common experience of compensation and personal injury lawyers to find that the more distinguished a medical witness is, the more tentative and qualified are his statements on the witness stand. * * * The weight of such testimony, however, should not be too sharply discounted because of the disposition of the highly trained scientific mind to refrain from unqualified statements or opinions on such matters as causation.” 3 Larson, Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 80.32.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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