Bitoun v. Landry’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 187 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. (1977), 623 So. 2d 1257 - Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp. (1993)
1 federal appellate · 187 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 Fox v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. · Bitoun v. Landry
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question is not whether a different award might have been more appropriate, but whether the award of the trial court can be reasonably supported by the evidence and justifiable inferences from the evidence before it.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage““On August 10, 1971 plaintiff’s car was hit from the rear by defendant. The next day he was referred to Dr. Florence Jones by his lawyer. After examination and x-rays Dr. Jones made a diagnosis of moderately severe cervical strain and moderate lumbar strain. Medication for pain and heat lamp therapy were prescribed. The doctor saw plaintiff on four occasions, the last on October 8 when plaintiff was discharged with no complaints from neck or back. From August 10 through October 1 plaintiff underwent twenty heat lamp treatments of twenty minutes each.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alombro v. Thomas
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.