Wright v. Lail’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2018
6 federal appellate · 11 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 Powell v. Augusta & Summerville Railroad · City Council of Augusta v. Owens · 101 Ga. App. 141 - Jones v. Hutchins · City of Manchester v. Rowe · Atlanta Street Railroad v. Jacobs
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“earnings before the injury, earnings after the injury, [and] probability of increased or decreased earnings in the future”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“diminution of one's capacity to earn money,”
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.