Doyle v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2015
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Silk v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Hall v. Farmers Insurance Exchange · Russell v. Flanagan · Walker v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Hicks v. Lloyd's General Insurance Agency, Inc.
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.
“there is any competent evidence or reasonable inference from circumstances reasonably tending to establish a cause of action or to sustain the jury's verdict and judgment based thereon.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“contracts [that] included both labor and services.”
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.