Cotner v. Blinne’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. Estate of Brown · Ackmann v. Keeney-Toelle Real Estate Company · Powers v. Shore · Steffen Ex Rel. Steffen v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · Dolan v. Rabenberg
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.
“if an award of damages is within the range of evidence, the jury's verdict may be responsive to the issue of damages even though it does not find an amount precisely in accordance with the claim of either of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Box
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.