Quinn v. Poole’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1988
16 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 Reddington v. Getchell · O'Donnell v. United Electric Railways Co. · Kane v. Burrillville Racing Assn. · Douglas v. First National Stores, Inc. · Cunningham v. Walsh
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Indeed defendant’s counsel cross-examined at great length about previous hack injuries suffered by plaintiff. This being so, the trial justice would be justified in charging the jury that they might consider this evidence of the effect, if any, of the instant collision on any pre-existing condition they may have found to exist.” 85 R.I. at 286 , 130 A.2d at 367 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mangasarian v. Gould
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.