Viator v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. (1977), 395 So. 2d 310 - Philippe v. Browning Arms Co. (1981)
2 federal appellate · 151 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 McFarland v. Illinois Central Railroad Co. · Pennington v. Justiss-Mears Oil Company · Brown v. S. A. Bourg & Sons, Inc. · Dobyns v. Yazoo & M. V. R. · Davis v. Lesnack
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Then, too, consideration must be given to the settled jurisprudence of this Court that allowance of monetary damages for loss of future earnings (or support of dependants in case of death) cannot be calculated with mathematical exactitude; that they are speculative in character and the `... most that the courts can do ... is to exercise a sound judicial discretion and award such amount as, all the circumstances considered, may seem just to both litigants and not unduly oppressive to either.' Dobyns v. Yazoo & M. V. R. Co., 119 La. 72 , 43 So. 934 . See also Brown v. S. A. Bourg & Sons, Inc., 239 La. 473 , 118 So.2d 891 ; McFarland v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, 241 La. 15 , 127 So.2d 183 , 87 A.L.R.2d 246 ; and Pennington v. Justiss-Mears Oil Company, 242 La. 1, 2 , 134 So.2d 53 ."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . work of a reasonable character, that is, work for which he was fitted by training and experience of the same or similar kind in which he was engaged at the time of the accident."”
2 later decisions 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.