Zwick v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Weld County Bd. of County Com'rs v. Slovek (1986), " L" INVESTMENTS, LTD. v. Lynch (1982)
26 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 141 Ind. App. 247 - General Outdoor Advertising Co. v. Lasalle Realty Corp. · City and County of Denver v. Hinsey · Frankfort Oil Company v. Abrams · Big Five Mining Co. v. Left Hand Ditch Co. · 31 Colo. App. 240 - American Fac. Assoc., Ltd. v. Triangle Heat. & Sm 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the court of appeals noted, market value before and after the injury is ordinarily a rule applied to measure damages to real property. [Citations omitted.] Since the goal of the law of compensatory damages is reimbursement of the plaintiff for the actual loss suffered, there may, of course, be instances in which repair or restoration cost may be a more appropriate measure such as (1) where the property has no market value, as in Big Five Mining Co. v. Left Hand Ditch Co., 73 Colo. 545 , 216 P. 719 (1923); or (2) where repairs have already been made, as in Fort v. Brighton Ditch Co., 79 Colo. 462 , 246 P. 786 (1926); Big Five Mining Co. v. Left Hand Ditch Co., supra ; or (3) where the property is a recently acquired private residence and the plaintiff's interest is in having the property restored, repair costs will more effectively return him to the position he was in prior to the injury, as in Bobrick v. Taylor, 171 Colo. 375 , 467 P.2d 822 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it would be inequitable to foreclose the possibility of recovery because the plaintiff failed to present evidence on a theory of damages which the trial court felt was inapplicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a recently acquired private residence and the plaintiff's interest is in having the property restored.”
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.