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← 203 Mont. 363 - White v. State

White v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
8
states following
April 2015
most recently cited

4 district · 44 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Ryszkiewicz v. City of New Britain (1984), Trujillo v. City of Albuquerque (1990)

4 district · 44 state decisions

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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 Shapiro v. Thompson · Boddie v. Connecticut · Owen v. City of Independence · Dunn v. Blumstein · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc.

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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Courts of justice shall be open to every person, and a speedy remedy afforded for every injury of person, property, or character; and that right and justice shall be administered without sale, denial, or delay.””
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “all persons have a speedy remedy for every injury”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. ““2-9-104. Limitation on governmental liability for damages in tort — petition for relief in excess of limits. (1) Neither the state, a county, municipality, taxing district, nor any other political subdivision of the state is liable in tort action for: “(a) noneconomic damages; or “(b) economic damages suffered as a result of an act or omission of an officer, agent, or employee of that entity in excess of $300,000 for each claimant and $1 million for each occurrence. “(2) The legislature or the governing body of a county, municipality, taxing district, or other political subdivision of the state may, in its sole discretion, authorize payments for noneconomic damages or economic damages in excess of the sum authorized in Subsection (l)(b) of this Section, or both, upon petition of plaintiff following a final judgment. No insurer is liable for such noneconomic damages or excess economic damages unless specifically authorized in the contract of insurance.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.