Walker v. Champion’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. (1977), 294 So. 2d 803 - Spillers v. MONTGOMERY WARD & COMPANY, INC. (1974)
1 federal appellate · 55 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 Gaspard v. LeMaire · Ballard v. National Indemnity Company of Omaha, Neb. · Miller v. Thomas · Lomenick v. Schoeffler · Talbert v. South Carolina Insurance
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From these decisions, two principles emerge: (1) To modify the amount of an award for general damages, an appellate court must find that the trial judge or jury has abused the `much discretion' accorded by the codal provision; (2) The awards in other cases serve only as an aid in determining whether there has been an abuse of discretion and rivet no steel frame of uniformity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“much discretion must be left to the judge or jury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““He who causes another person to do an unlawful act, or assists or encourages in the commission of it, is answerable, in solido, with that person, for the damage caused by such act.” * * * * * *”
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.