Kleeman v. Cadwell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Unless there is evidence to support submitting the issue of damages to the jury on a different basis, a verdict form which requires only a determination of the total future damages and the years over which they will be sustained is appropriate. * * * Thus unless it appears from the evidence that damages will be sustained unevenly, which makes a more detailed verdict form appropriate, damages may be assumed to be spread more or less evenly over the specified time period.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Schreiner v. Schmitz

2. “The objective of the [Minnesota] method is to determine the ‘real’ yield of money: that portion of interest charged on virtually risk-free investments that repre sents only the real cost of money and not the additional cost the lender charges as a hedge against inflation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Robichaud v. Theis