Smith v. J.I. Case Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2016
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Schlagenhauf v. Holder · Turner v. Imperial Stores · 850 F. Supp. 216 - Bridges v. Eastman Kodak Co. · Cody v. Marriott Corp.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The practice seems to be more and more in vogue of late for defendants to seek to partake of the in terrorem tactic of visiting upon a plaintiff a particularly intrusive incursion: examination by a psychiatrist, and other psychological delvings. [[Image here]] In so stating, I by no means suggest — even though it is beyond the factual ambit before me — that psychiatric and psychological exams are never called for. The rules expressly call for them, and properly so. Many is the situation when they are a necessary and proper tool for fingering the mental malingerer, exposing the hyper-emotional charlatan. I only suggest that in cases such as this one — your basic garden-variety tort quest for damages, to include pain and suffering — psychiatric examination should be the exception, not the rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'irritation of the muscles and fasciae (membranes) of the back and neck causing chronic pain (without evidence of nerve or muscle disease).’”
1 later decision 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.