Gregory v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Golden Eagle Archery, Inc. v. Jackson (2003), Smith v. Printup (1993)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Weingarden v. United States · Bacon v. Mercy Hosp. of Ft. Scott · McDougald v. Garber · Leiker Ex Rel. Leiker v. Gafford · Farley v. Engelken
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recogniz[ed] that requiring some cognitive awareness as a prerequisite to recovery for loss of enjoyment of life results in the paradoxical situation that the greater the degree of brain injury inflicted by a negligent defendant, the smaller the award the plaintiff can recover.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“took the more realistic approach that, as a general rule, the loss of enjoyment of the pleasurable things in life is inextricably included within the more traditional areas of damages for disability and pain and suffering.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the temptation to achieve a balance between injury and damages has nothing to do with meaningful compensation for the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.