Houser v. Eckhardt’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2023
1 district · 12 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 Lineman v. Schmid · 17 Ill. 2d 242 - River Valley Cartage Co. v. Hawkeye-Security Insurance · Standard Acc. Ins. v. Winget · 57 Wis. 2d 669 - McPhee v. American Motorists Insurance · Sampson v. Century Indemnity Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In all actions brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by any person resulting from or occasioned by the tort of any other person . . . it is lawful for the plaintiff in the complaint to claim interest on the damages alleged from the date said suit is filed; and, when such interest is so claimed, it is the duty of the court . . . to add to the amount of damages assessed by the verdict of the jury, or found by the court, interest on such amount calculated at the legal rate from the date such suit was filed to the date of entering the judgment . . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This pre-judgment interest is in the nature of another item of damages. That is, it represents a legislatively prescribed award for any delay in plaintiffs receipt of money to which he has been found legally entitled. Thus, the insurer’s liability for damages includes both the amount of the jury verdict and any interest on that verdict accruing prior to the entry of judgment. Here, by the terms of the policy, the maximum amount of the insurer’s obligation for the total of these two items of damages may not exceed $25,000.”
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.