Steitz v. Gifford’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Texaco, Inc. v. Pennzoil, Co. (1987), Slotkin v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York (1980)
12 federal appellate · 35 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 Wakeman v. Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. · Griffin v. . Colver · Ehrgott v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y. · Ball v. T. J. Pardy Construction Co. · Curtis v. . Rochester and Syracuse Railroad Company
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In actions in tort, there are certain well-settled and universally recognized rules relating to damages recoverable ... [including that] [Reasonable certainty as to the amount ... is required.”). See also Behrens v. Metropolitan Opera Ass’n, Inc., 18 A.D.3d 47 , 794 N.Y.S.2d 301, 303 (1st Dep't 2005) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In tort actions, an injured plaintiff may recover from the defendant all damages directly flowing from and as a natural consequence of the wrongful act, so long as the damages may be ascertained with reasonable certainty.”
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.