Zabol v. Lasky’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1996
11 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 Hays v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company · Butcher v. Main
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.
“(1) when counsel makes an admission which affirmatively demonstrates as a matter of law that plaintiff has no cause of action or is not entitled to recover on his cause of action, or (2) where the facts recited in the opening statement, if proved, do not, as a matter of law, constitute enough to make a submissi-ble case to go to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dotson v. Hammerman
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.