Dassinger v. Oden’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Pritchard v. State (1990), Mammo v. State (1983)
2 district · 32 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2675
Relies on Bialowas v. United States · Caton v. United States · Avril v. United States · Driggers v. United States · 23 Ariz. App. 463 - State v. Brooks
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Persons having claims on contract or for negligence against the state, which have been disallowed, may on the terms and conditions set forth in this article, bring action thereon against the state and prosecute the action to final judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is no sum certain contained in the letter which plaintiffs would have been satisfied to settle for.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“itemized $1,300 for medical expenses, $1,800 for future medical expenses and $200 for mileage. However, the letter also [claimed] that plaintiff had suffered loss of wages in an unspecified amount and that he had also suffered substantial pain, mental anguish, and inconvenience which resulted in an unspecified amount of damages.”
1 later decision 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.