Nelson v. Hammon’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2015
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 Burns v. McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Co., Inc. · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado v. Sharp · Smith v. City & County of Denver ex rel. Board of Water Commissioners · Durango School District No. 9-R v. Thorpe · Alzado v. Blinder, Robinson & Co., 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the plaintiff need not prove with absolute certainty that the defendant's conduct caused the plaintiffs harm ... [hlowever, the plaintiff must establish causation beyond mere possibility or speculation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“might have had some effect in reducing the chance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.