Witt v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2018
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Moore v. Adams · Burkett v. Moran · Hallford v. Schumacher · Smith v. Missouri, K. & T. R. Co. · Rogers v. Cato Oil & Grease 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[In making the Lee Way award the jury instructionally had to find that it was nee-essary for plaintiffs to undergo substantial medical treatment and that the compensation court awards for disability secondary to the collision were reasonable and proper. In other words ... the jury had to find that both plaintiffs were injured in the wreck, had suffered pain and had some consequential residual disability."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[N]o instruction on the inference arising from failure to produce evidence or a witness should be given. The main reason is that the matter is a subject for argument to the jury and should not be given undue recognition by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under the uncontradicted evidence, if defendant was liable to plaintiff at all, plaintiff was entitled to recover damages for pain and suffering.”
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.