Freeman v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2021
14 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 Nationwide Corp. v. Howing Co. · K Mart Corp. v. Ponsock · 11 Cal. 3d 639 - Brown v. Colm · 99 Wash. 2d 438 - Harris v. Groth · Casey v. Phillips Pipeline 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“loss of probable suppore that would have been provided by the decedent. Thus, as we have explained, "[Weirs damages, based on the decedent's lost earning capacity, may include present as well as future loss of support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ole legislature's intent should be given full effect”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quisano v. State
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.