Rinderknecht v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 1971 · most notably Holmes v. Terminal RR Ass'n of St. Louis (1953), Block v. Rackers (1953)
44 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 Kemper v. Gluck · Homan v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Toeneboehn v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Holtz v. Daniel Hamm Drayage Co., Inc. · Tash v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test is whether or not the size of the verdict is such as to shock the conscience of the court.”
3 later decisions 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.