373 So. 2d 498 - Reck v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1,463 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,476 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 623 So. 2d 1257 - Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp. (1993), Anderson v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc. (1991)
6 federal appellate · 1,463 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 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. · Gaspard v. LeMaire · Ballard v. National Indemnity Company of Omaha, Neb. · Lomenick v. Schoeffler · Talbert v. South Carolina Insurance
Cited together with 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. · Arceneaux v. Domingue · 623 So. 2d 1257 - Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp. · Gaspard v. LeMaire · 549 So. 2d 840 - Rosell v. Esco
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 1,476 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before a trial court award may be questioned as inadequate or excessive, the reviewing court must look first, not to prior awards, but to the individual circumstances of the present case. Only after analysis of the facts and circumstances peculiar to this case and this individual may a reviewing court determine that the award is excessive.”
231 later decisions quote this exact passage“much discretion must be left to the [trial] judge or jury”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage“A general review of the jurisprudence indicates that our courts balance many factors in assessing damages in assault and battery cases. These include, besides physical pain and suffering, the factors of provocation, reasonableness of force used, attendant humiliating circumstances, sex of victim, mental distress, etc. There is no rule or standard of law fixing or establishing the amount of recovery and each case consequently must rest on its own set of facts.”
3 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.