Bonham v. Baldeschwiler’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2005
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 St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. Murphree · Traylor v. Goulding · Texas & Pacific Railway Company v. Van Zandt · Graham v. Franco · New Amsterdam Casualty Company v. Jordan
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally it is error to admit evidence of prior claims to show that the plaintiff is claims minded. [Citation omitted.] When the evidence, however, is offered to show statements which are inconsistent with the party’s present position, it is receivable as an admission against interest. [Citation omitted.] It has also been recognized that it is proper to allow a party to be fully cross-examined as to previous injuries, claims and actions to show that his present physical condition is not the result of the injury presently sued for, but was caused in whole or in part by an earlier or subsequent injury or a preexisting condition. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Middleton v. Palmer
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.