Anderson v. Mutert’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2009
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 Burr v. Singh · Murphy Ex Rel. Murphy v. Land · Labor Discount Center, Inc. v. State Bank & Trust Co. of Wellston · State v. Simmons · Jaeger v. Jaeger
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no evidence on the issue of consortium damages except the testimony of [the spouse] herself,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] cause of action accruing to a party for loss of consortium is separate and distinct from that party's spouse suffering personal injury. The spouse seeking compensation for loss of consortium must show that he or she suffered damages arising out of the other's injuries....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o rule for plaintiffs on this issue would be, in essence, to direct a verdict for them on a question that we believe rightly went to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alldread v. Bailey
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.