Bakker v. Irvine’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]e are not to speculate or query how we would have viewed the evidence and testimony, or what verdict we would have rendered had we been the jury. The real and only question to be solved and answered is, Is there any legal evidence upon which the verdict can properly be based, and the conclusions embraced in and covered by it be fairly reached?”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morrison v. Mineral Palace Ltd. Partnership · Artz v. Meyers

2. ““If when inadmissible evidence is offered the party against whom such evidence is offered consents to its introduction, or fails to object, or to insist upon a ruling on an objection to the introduction of such evidence, and otherwise fails to raise the question as to its admissibility, he is considered to have waived whatever objection he may have had thereto, and the evidence is in the record for consideration the same as other evidence.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Andreson v. Black Hills Power & Light Co. · Steele v. Bonner

3. “the damages ... must be so excessive or inadequate as to strike mankind, at first blush, as being, beyond all measure, unreasonable and outrageous, and such as manifestly show the jury to have been actuated by passion, partiality, prejudice or corruption.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Berry v. Risdall · Roth v. Farner-Bocken Co.