Childs v. Bainer’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
188 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Haynes v. Yale-New Haven Hospital (1997), Carrol v. Allstate Insurance (2003)
188 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 Malmberg v. Lopez · Leo Fedus & Sons Construction Co. v. Zoning Board of Appeals · Kiniry v. Danbury Hospital · Johnson v. Franklin · Wood v. City of Bridgeport
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court's refusal to set aside the verdict or to order an additur is entitled to great weight and every reasonable presumption should be given in favor of its correctness. . . . If, on the evidence, the jury could reasonably have decided as they did, [the reviewing court] will not find error in the trial court's acceptance of the verdict. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"`noneconomic damages' means compensation determined by the trier of fact for all nonpecuniary losses including, but not limited to, physical pain and suffering and mental and emotional suffering."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`Economic damages' means compensation determined by the trier of fact for pecuniary losses including, but not limited to, the cost of reasonable and necessary medical care. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.