Acken v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2014
15 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 Acken v. Campbell · Acken v. Campbell
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“issue to the jury, tainted the entire jury finding of negligence and wilful and wanton negligence of the defendants. Indeed, the Court found that the jury's answer of a special interrogatory on plaintiff's decedent's contributory negligence in the negative did not preclude a retrial on the issue of contributory negligence on the remand. The negligence issues were so closely intertwined that all issues resolved by the jury were suspect and”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“argue[d] for the good sense of a reappraisal of the negligence of all parties involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.