Coll v. Sherry’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Jaffee v. United States (1979), Evers v. Dollinger (1984)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 58 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 Wytupeck v. City of Camden · Rempfer v. Deerfield Packing Corp. · Hager v. Weber · Hartpence v. Grouleff · Fisch v. Manger
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] plaintiff must present evidence that there is (1) `a reasonable probability that his injuries will impair his future earning capacity' and (2) `sufficient factual matter upon which the quantum of diminishment can reasonably be determined'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the prospective consequences may, in reasonable probability be expected to flow from the past harm, plaintiff is entitled to be indemnified for them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“between the inability to foresee what will eventuate in the future and the principle that a plaintiff may not bring successive actions to recover for the results of a tortious personal injury as they unfold.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.