Doherty v. Ruiz’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 1992 · most notably Solimene v. B. GRAUEL & CO., KG (1987), Goldstein v. Gontarz (1974)
33 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 Whipple v. Rich · Shea v. Rettie · Gray v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · McGarrahan v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad · Hendler v. Coffey
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 element of damages in question is properly described as compensation for diminution of earning power, or conversely as the value of that part of the plaintiff’s capacity to work and earn of which he was deprived.” Doherty v. Ruiz, 302 Mass. 145, 146 , 18 N.E.2d 542, 543 (Mass. 1939).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Michaud v. Steckino
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.