Ward v. Epting’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Welch v. Epstein (2000), Atlas Food Systems and Services Incorporated v. Crane National Vendors Incorporated (1996)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Young Ex Rel. Estate of Young v. Tide Craft, Inc. · Powers v. Temple · Hook Ex Rel. Estate of Summers v. Rothstein · Matthews v. Porter · Elliott v. Black River Electric Cooperative
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that [the doctor] was not board certified relates to her credibility as a witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here was sufficient evidence to present a jury question on [the plaintiff's] ... pain and suffering”
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.