Brooks v. Odom’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Franklin Tower One, L.L.C. v. N.M. (1999), Lowe v. Zarghami (1999)
4 district · 74 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 Brill v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Ayers v. Township of Jackson · Oswin v. Shaw · Dairy Stores, Inc. v. Sentinel Publishing Co. · Roig v. Kelsey
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No damages shall be awarded against a public entity or public employee for pain and suffering resulting from any injury; provided, however, that this limitation on the recovery of damages for pain and suffering shall not apply in cases of permanent loss of a bodily function, permanent disfigurement or dismemberment where the medical treatment expenses are in excess of $3,600.00.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] plaintiff must sustain a permanent loss of the use of a bodily function that is substantial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff's version of the facts [and] giving plaintiff the benefit of all favorable inferences that version supports,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.