Ackerman v. Fischer’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2023
5 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
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the amount of damages claimed by either party is uncertain and based upon opinion, then it is entirely within the province of the fury to find the amount of the damages. In such cases it is an invasion of the province of the jury for the court to direct the finding of a certain amount.” [emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Skjonsby v. Ness
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.