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← 26 N.J. 82 - Botta v. Brunner

Botta v. Brunner’s Empirical Analysis

1958

Citation profile

237
cited by 237 later decisions
40
states following
June 2011
most recently cited

33 federal appellate · 4 district · 190 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 237 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably 625 So. 2d 1002 - Lasha v. Olin Corp. (1993), Seffert v. Los Angeles Transit Lines (1961)

33 federal appellate · 4 district · 190 state decisions — followed in 40 states

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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.

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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “6. In an action for bodily injuries, it is an unwarranted intrusion into the jury's domain for plaintiff's counsel to suggest in his summation to the jury a monetary mathematical formula, based on a specified amount per hour for the admeasurement of damages for pain and suffering. 7. The measure of damages for pain and suffering following a personal injury is `fair and reasonable compensation,' since there can be no fixed basis, table, standard, or mathematical rule which will serve as an accurate index and guide to the establishment of awards of damages for personal injuries. 8. There is no measure by which the amount of pain and suffering endured by a particular human can be calculated, and no standard of value which can be applied; any effort to attach a price tag thereto must become lost in emotion, fancy and speculation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Crum v. Ward

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.