Fruit Industries, Inc. v. Stella Petty, as Administratrix of the Estate of Julius E. Petty, Deceased’s Empirical Analysis
268 F.2d 391 · 1959
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2016
21 federal appellate · 1 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 Dick v. New York Life Insurance · Whiteman v. Pitrie · 73 So. 2d 403 - Voelker v. Combined Ins. Co. of America · Marie E. Pogue and William T. Pogue v. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company · Hackman v. Beckwith
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Comparison of verdicts rendered in different cases is not a satisfactory method for determining excessiveness vel non in a particular case and . . . each case must be determined on its own facts.””
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.