Kwapien v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2013
1 district · 8 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 Carpenter v. Nelson · Busch v. Busch Construction, Inc. · Hudson v. Snyder Body, Inc. · Wilson v. Sorge · Young Ex Rel. Young v. Hansen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plaintiff must prove the reasonable certainty of such expenses by a fair preponderance of the evidence. * * * The jury, then, is not permitted to award any amount based on a showing that “expenses” are likely to occur. The plaintiff must also present some evidence of what the expenses will be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lind v. Slowinski“[T]he impairment of the ability of a woman to work is an injury to her personal rights wholly apart from any pecuniary benefit the exercise of such power may bring, and if her injury has lessened this power she ought to be able to recover damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“who was presently performing homemaker activities and had no plans to resume gainful employment.”
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.