McGaw v. Wassmann’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1999
17 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 Bucher v. Wisconsin Central Railway Co. · Lyon v. City of Grand Rapids · Dreher v. Order of United Commercial Travelers of America · Georgeson v. Nielsen · Corti v. Cooney
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“During the trial, an expert witness was told to assume that certain facts were true and then was asked for an opinion based upon those assumptions. This is called a hypothetical question. Such an opinion should be considered only to the extent that the assumed facts upon which it is based are true and correct. Such an opinion does not establish the truth of the facts upon which it is based. If you find that the facts stated in the hypothetical question have not been proved, then the opinion based thereon is not to be given any weight.”
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.