Perniciaro v. Brinch’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

164

cited by 164 later decisions

states following

June 2019

most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 157 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 625 So. 2d 1002 - Lasha v. Olin Corp. (1993), 496 So. 2d 270 - Scott v. Hosp. Serv. Dist. No. 1 (1986)

3 federal appellate · 157 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 Arceneaux v. Domingue · Canter v. Koehring Company · 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. · 258 So. 2d 694 - Deville v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Sansonni v. Jefferson Parish School Bd.

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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“In the assessment of damages in cases of offenses, quasi offenses, and quasi contracts, much discretion must be left to the judge or jury.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Jaffarzad v. Jones Truck Lines, Inc. · 617 So. 2d 1267 - Provost v. Provost
“[a] defendant takes his victim as he finds him and he is responsible for all the natural and probable consequences of his tortious conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Mose v. Brewer · Taylor v. City of Alexandria
“Where the defendant's negligent action aggravates a pre-existing injury, he must compensate the victim for the full extent of this aggravation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Peter J. Dahlen, Peter J. Dahlen, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Gulf Crews, Inc. Gulf Boat Marine Services, Inc. Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Appellees, Universal Ogden Services, Forest Oil Corp., Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Security Insurance Company of Hartford, Third Party · Taylor v. City of Alexandria

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.