Kowing v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Landstrom v. Shaver (1997), Schmidt v. Wildcat Cave, Inc. (1977)
4 district · 22 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 Peters v. Hoisington · Keith v. Willers Truck Service · Kerr v. O'Keefe · Baldwin v. Bohl · Heintz v. Hoover
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities recognize a distinction between uncertainty as to the cause or fact of damages and uncertainty as to the amount. See Annotation in 78 A.L.R. 858 . The rule against indefinite or uncertain damages applies only to such damages as are not the definite or certain results of the wrong. Uncertainty as to the fact is fatal to recovery, but uncertainty as to the measure or extent of the damages does not bar recovery. * * ” Kowing v. Williams, 1954, 75 S.D. 454, 459 , 67 N.W.2d 780, 783 .”
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.