Jones v. Flood’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Craft · Stewart v. United Electric Light & Power Co. · Biro v. Schombert · Fennell v. Southern Maryland Hospital Center, Inc. · United States v. Streidel
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““in accord with the majority of other jurisdictions, that the proper measure of lost earnings damages in a personal injury action for a plaintiff whose life expectancy is reduced by the defendant’s negligence is the plaintiffs loss of earnings based on the plaintiffs life expectancy had the tortious conduct not occurred, rather than loss of earnings based on the plaintiffs post-tort shortened life expectancy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Flood
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.