Battalla v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 12 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa (1989), Eastern Airlines, Inc. v. Floyd (1991)
16 federal appellate · 12 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Ehrgott v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y. · Spade v. Lynn & Boston Railroad · 5 E.H. Smith 107 - Mitchell v. . Rochester Railway Co. · Woods v. Lancet · Green v. T. A. Shoemaker & Co.
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]t has been thoroughly repudiated by the English courts which initiated it, rejected by a majority of American jurisdictions, abandoned by many which originally adopted it, and diluted, through numerous exceptions, in the minority which retained it." Battalla v. State, 10 N.Y.2d 237 , 219 N.Y.S.2d 34 , 176 N.E.2d 729 (1961).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The appellant avers that in September of 1956, at Bellayre Mountain Ski Center, the infant plaintiff was placed in a chair lift by an employee of the State who failed to secure and properly lock the belt intended to protect the occupant. As a result of this alleged negligent act, the infant plaintiff became frightened and hysterical upon the descent, with consequential injuries.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In judging the genuineness of a claim of mental distress, courts and juries may look to 'the quality and genuineness of proof and rely to an extent on the contemporary sophistication of the medical profession and the ability of the court and jury to weed out dishonest claims.'”
2 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.