Holton v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 1991 · most notably 298 Pa. Super. 92 - Pratt v. Stein (1982), 259 Pa. Super. 509 - Lewis v. Mellor (1978)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 Bochar v. J. B. Martin Motors, Inc. · Lear v. Shirk's Motor Express Corp. · Holden v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Thompson v. Gorman · Richards Et Ux. v. Warner Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A tortfeasor is not entitled to a reduction in his financial responsibility because, through fortuitous circumstances or unusual application on the part of the injured person, the wages of the injured person following the accident are as high, or even higher than they were prior to the accident. ... It is not the status of the immediate present which determines capacity for remunerative employment. Where permanent injury is involved, the whole span of life must be considered. Has the economic horizon of the disabled person been shortened because of the injuries sustained as the result of the tortfeasor’s negligence? That is the test. And it is no answer to that test to say that there are just as many dollars in the patient’s pay envelope now as prior to his accident. The normal status of a healthy person is to progress, and to the extent that his progress has been curtailed, he has suffered a loss which is properly computable in damages”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tournier v. Gretz
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.