Fazio v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991), Jaworski v. Kiernan (1997)
82 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 Peck v. Jacquemin · Malmberg v. Lopez · 360 Pa. Super. 119 - Ecksel v. Orleans Construction Co. · Wendland v. Ridgefield Construction Services, Inc. · Mickel v. New England Coal & Coke 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our holding squares with the well founded belief that in cases such as the one at hand, the jury may have rendered a compromise verdict, that is, a verdict `where some of the jurors . . . conceded liability against their judgment, and some . . . reduced their estimate of the damages in order to secure an agreement of liability with their fellow jurors . . .' Murray v. Krenz, supra, 508. When a compromise verdict exists, `a new trial confined to the single issues of damage will be a serious injustice to the defendant [as] [h]e has never had the issue of liability determined by the conscientious conviction of all of the jury; and that he is entitled to have.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"No such verdict may be set aside solely on the ground that the damages are inadequate until the parties have first been given an opportunity to accept an addition to the verdict of such amount as the Court deems reasonable."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinarily the reversal of a jury verdict requires a new trial of all the issues in the case. Where the error as to one issue . . . is separable from the general issues, the new trial may be limited to the CT Page 16961 error found, provided that such qualification or limitation does not work injustice to the other issues or the case as a whole. . . . But where the retrial of the single issue may affect the other issues to the prejudice of either party, the court will not exercise its discretion in limiting the new trial but will grant it de novo. . . . We have applied this principle in ordering retrials on both liability and damages when there was reason to believe that a verdict, so low in relation to the injuries sustained in a negligence case that reversal is warranted, may have resulted from a compromise reached by the jurors on the issue of liability.”
1 later decision 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.