Butler v. Pardue’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arceneaux v. Domingue · 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. · Hoffman v. All Star Insurance Corp. · 340 So. 2d 293 - Hughes v. Southeastern Fidelity Ins. Co. · 249 So. 2d 282 - Devall v. State Farm Mutual Insurance Company
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurisprudence specifically provides that fright, fear or mental anguish while an ordeal is in progress is legally compensable.”
1 later decision 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.