Checketts v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably Cheney v. Palos Verdes Investment Corp. (1983), Dinneen v. Finch (1979)
4 federal appellate · 34 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 Bond v. United R.R. of S.F. · Fuentes v. Tucker · Tyson v. Romey · 80 Cal. App. 2d 857 - Couch v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. · Manion Ex Rel. Manion v. Waybright
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The remedy for excessive verdicts rests largely with the trial judge, whose duty it is to carefully weigh the evidence and not allow a verdict to stand for a greater amount than the evidence will reasonably justify. (Emphasis in original.) * * * * * * "Practically, the trial court must bear the whole responsibility in every case."”
10 later decisions 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.