Thacker v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2017
14 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 Gillikin v. Burbage · Calloway v. Wyatt · Williamson v. Bennett · Smith v. Corsat · Barron v. . Cain
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]rom an injury which necessarily causes physical pain the law assumes that the normal person will suffer some mental anguish also. . . . Although it is the better practice in a personal injury action to aver specifically that the plaintiff has suffered mental anguish as a result of his injuries . . . most courts . . . hold that CT Page 1297-cj where a description of the injury itself is such as to indicate that pain and mental anguish would ordinarily accompany it, the specific allegation is unnecessary.”
1 later decision 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.