Malmberg v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991), Childs v. Bainer (1995)
2 district · 157 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 Frankovitch v. Burton · Riccio v. Abate · State v. Chin Lung · Zarrelli v. Barnum Festival Society, Inc. · Rosenblatt v. Berman
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the sense of justice as to compel the conclusion that the jury was influenced . . . by mistake. . . .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the inferred conclusion is that the jury was misguided in reaching its decision.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“We have held that where the plaintiffs are entitled to recover damages for their injuries an award limited to nominal or special damages is `manifestly inadequate' and should be set aside. . . .”
4 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.