Goodmaster v. Houser’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably Blanchette v. Barrett (1994), Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Ayers (2003)
2 district · 74 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 Batick v. Seymour · Champagne v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. · Alaimo v. Royer · Petriello v. Kalman · Hall v. Burns
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] plaintiff may recover for the fear of future medical treatment and disability, as distinguished from a recovery for the future disability itself, even if there is only a possibility that such future treatment or disability will take place.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[T]he fact that General Statutes § 52-114 allocated the burden of proof on the issue of the plaintiff's due care to the defendant does not change the substantive law that the plaintiff had a duty to use such care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] danger of future injury is a present fact and the jury [is] entitled to take into consideration the anxiety resulting therefrom.”
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.