Friend v. Dunks’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1998
13 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.
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.
“This whole question of permitting all the facts and circumstances in this class of cases to be laid before the jury, under such instructions and advice from the court as would tend to prevent the allowance of such as might be merely possible, or too remote and fanciful in their character to be safely considered as the result of the injury .... [Id. at 32.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anzaldua v. Band“`What those damages are, in any given case, the legislature have seen proper to leave in these broad terms to a jury to determine.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anzaldua v. Band
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.