Van Eaton v. Thon’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2016
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Bass v. Nooney Co. · Sanders v. Daniel International Corp. · Hollins v. Powell · Hoene v. Associated Dry Goods Corporation · Thorne v. Thorne
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order to recover for emotional distress where no physical injury is involved, there must be proof by 'expert medical testimony that the emotional distress or mental injury was medically significant.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“THE COURT: Ladies and gentlemen, in examining the verdict forms, I’m going to ask you to return to the jury room. Your verdict forms on Verdict A and B are incorrect. Your verdict forms as to Verdict C and D are correct in the way they’re filled out, all right? So I’m going to return to you — ask you to return to the jury room to look again at the instructions as to Verdict From (sic) A and B, okay?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f a verdict is found to be ambiguous, inconsistent, or otherwise defective, the jury should be given the opportunity to correct the verdict or to find a new one before such verdict is recorded and made part of the judgment.”
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.