Bryant v. . Carrier’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2012
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The exception to the court’s instruction to the jury, that if they found the plaintiff’s injury and loss would continue in the future they should award the present value of such prospective damages as they found would accrue, cannot be sustained. While compensation cannot be based upon a mere conjectural probability of future loss (17 C.J., 764), here there was evidence to justify the instruction to which the exception was noted. ‘If it appears that the estrangement (between husband and wife) or its effects will be permanent, or will continue for some time in the future, the damages must cover this once and for all.’ McCormick on Damages, 409; Riggs v. Smith, 62 Idaho, 43 ; 17 C.J., 762; 30 C.J., 1148.””
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.