Richardson v. Braxton-Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2015
15 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 Brown v. Huddleston · Hall v. Hall · Doe v. West · Taylor v. Maritime Overseas Corp. · Walker v. Mason
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the amount of a verdict is within the jury’s discretion, and when arrived at upon competent and proper instructions, is inviolate ... (2) when evaluating the amount of the jury verdict, all reasonable inferences must be drawn in favor of the verdict rendered ... and (3) if, based on the evidence, the jury was entitled to believe that only a portion of the damages claimed were reasonably related to the accident, then the verdict cannot be set aside by the trial court as inadequate as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anglin v. McCann“The quality of the evidence is dispositive, not a comparison between the amount of the verdict and the special damages claimed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bates v. Bailey
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.