Leabo v. Leninski’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Buckman v. People Express, Inc. (1987), Aspiazu v. Orgera (1987)
44 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 Conaway v. Prestia · Vandersluis v. Weil · Alaimo v. Royer · Collens v. New Canaan Water Co. · Johnson v. Flammia
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that it is difficult to measure pain and suffering in terms of money does not prevent a recovery as long as there is a reasonable basis in the evidence for that recovery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“That damages may be difficult to assess is, in itself, insufficient reason for refusing them once the right to damages has been established.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A formalistic or highly technical construction of pleadings is contrary to a proper view of pleading requirements.”
3 later decisions 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.