Thayer v. Sommer’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably Arie v. Intertherm, Inc. (1983), Coulter v. Michelin Tire Corp. (1981)
31 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 Scanlon v. Kansas City · Powell v. Union Pacific Railroad · Janssens v. Thompson · Janssens v. Thompson · Anderson Ex Rel. Anderson v. Prugh
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An objection to the exclusion of testimony cannot be considered on appeal in the absence of a showing of what the testimony would have been and that it was relevant and material, (citations) The mere refusal to allow a witness to testify is not reversible error in the absence of a showing of what the answer would have been, (citations) It is also the rule that reversible error cannot be predicated on the exclusion of a proper question where there is no offer of proof that the answer would have been in favor of the complaining party, (citations)”
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.