Kostolansky v. Lesher’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Nielson v. Flashberg (1966), Acton v. Deliran (1987)
28 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 Carrillo v. Taylor · Schmerfeld v. Hendry · Bean v. Gorby · Sibley v. Jeffreys · Decker v. Ramenofsky
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.”
5 later decisions 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.