Loomis v. Ameritech Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Olcott International & Co. v. Micro Data Base Systems, Inc. (2003), Watson v. Auto Advisors, Inc. (2005)
2 district · 43 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 Erie Insurance v. Hickman Ex Rel. Smith · Rice v. Strunk · Anderson v. Anderson · Cahoon v. Cummings · Dean v. Kirkland
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contain the contentions of the appellant on the issues presented, supported by cogent reasoning. Each contention must be supported by citations to the authorities, statutes, and the Appendix or parts of the Record on Appeal relied on....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“For the spoliation of evidence doctrine to apply, the evidence must be exclusively possessed and must be made unavailable, destroyed, or altered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[alfter the pleadings are closed but within such time as not to delay the trial, any party may move for judgment on the pleadings.”
2 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.