Freeman v. Berg’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2010
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Dwyer v. Christensen · Baker v. Jewell · Degen v. Bayman · Starnes v. Stofferahn · Stenholtz v. Modica
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From reviewing the verdict form, there is no way for this court to know how the jury arrived at the $100,000 figure. ‘Mere assertions of what the jury may have concluded are insufficient’ to show prejudice. Duncan v. Pennington County H.A., 283 N.W.2d 546, 553 (S.D.1979); Dwyer v. Christensen, 77 S.D. 381, 385 , 92 N.W.2d 199, 202 (1958). ‘Under such circumstances we have indicated that if a verdict is susceptible to more than one construction, the construction which sustains the verdict must be applied.’ Bankwest, Inc. v. Valentine, 451 N.W.2d 732, 736 (S.D.1990); Fjerstad v. Sioux Valley Hospital, 291 N.W.2d 786, 788 (S.D.1980); Baker v. Jewell, 77 S.D. 573, 580 , 96 N.W.2d 299, 304 (1959).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.