Rush v. Blanchard’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Welch v. Epstein (2000), Jackson v. Speed (1997)
3 federal appellate · 72 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 Graham v. Whitaker · Bramlette Ex Rel. Estate of Bramlette v. Charter-Medical-Columbia · Morrison v. Lowe · Vernon v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. · Brabham v. Southern Asphalt Haulers, Inc.
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires proof of both causation in fact and legal cause. Causation in fact is proved by establishing the injury would not have occurred `but for' the defendant's negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[G]reat deference is given to the trial judge, especially in the area of intangible elements of damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nestler v. Fields
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.