Lanning v. Schulte’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1980
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Pope v. United States · Wycko v. Gnodtke · Butler v. Steck · Tufty v. Sioux Transit Co. · Weidner v. Lineback
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.
“The evidence on liability was sharply disputed and it may be surmised that the jury encountered difficulty in arriving at a verdict on the issue of liability. There is some indication that it may have been the result of a compromise. However, having found liability the jury was duty bound to assess damages in accordance with the evidence presented, guided by the instructions of the court. Zielinski v. Harris, 289 Mich. 381, 286 N.W. 654. If the jury allowed the issue of liability to control the amount of the award they were palpably mistaken in applying the rules of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Novak v. Gramm“S.D.C.L. 21-5-7 states: In every action for wrongful death the jury may give such damages as they may think proportionate to the pecuniary injury resulting from such death to the persons respectively for whose benefit such action shall be brought. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“disproportionate to the injury sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Novak v. Gramm
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.