Brown v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Olivetti Corp. v. Ames Business Systems, Inc. (1987), 57 N.C. App. 373 - Beck v. Carolina Power and Light Co. (1982)
30 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 Roberts v. William N. & Kate B. Reynolds Mem. Park · Robertson Ex Rel. Robertson v. Stanley · Bowen v. CONSTRUCTORS EQUIPMENT RENTAL COMPANY · Gay v. Thompson · Stegall v. Sledge
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The present monetary value of the decedent to the persons entitled to receive the damages recovered will usually defy any precise mathematical computation. Therefore, the assessment of damages must, to a large extent, be left to the good sense and fair judgment of the jury — subject, of course, to the discretionary power of the judge to set its verdict aside when, in his opinion, equity and justice so require. The fact that the full extent of the damages must be a matter of some speculation is no ground for refusing all damages.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he present monetary value of the decedent to the persons entitled to receive the damages will usually defy any precise mathematical computation. [Citations omitted.] Therefore, the assessment of damages must, to a large extent, he left to the good sense and fair judgment of the jury . . . The fact that the full extent of the damages must be a matter of some speculation is no ground for refusing all damages. [Citations omitted.]... “The damages in any wrongful death action are to some extent uncertain and speculative. A jury may indulge in such speculation where it is necessary and there are sufficient facts to support speculation.” (Citations omitted.) (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is only when the jury has arbitrarily disregarded the law and the evidence that the judge must exercise [ ] judicial discretion and set the verdict aside.”
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.