78 Mich. App. 97 - Lone v. Esco Elevators, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2001
13 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“None of the previously cited authorities conclusively determine the question before us. Additional policy and statutory interpretation arguments could be made for both sides. But no definitive answer would ever emerge. After considering the competing arguments and policy considerations, we affirm the trial court’s ruling that ECU is not entitled to any portion of Mrs. Lone’s loss of consortium recovery. [Footnote omitted.] Id. at 874 .”
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.