Nicholson v. Garris’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 441 Pa. Super. 1 - Sprague v. Walter (1995), 226 Pa. Super. 381 - ELDRIDGE Et Ux. v. MELCHER (1973)
27 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 Dively v. Penn-Pittsburgh Corp. · Lenahan v. Pittston Coal Mining Co. · Kaplan v. Loev · Trimble v. Merloe · Hollis v. United States Glass 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the jury may be tempted to assess liability where none exists or to arrive at an excessive verdict based on sympathy for an injured plaintiff with the thought that it is not the defendant personally, but an insurance company, which will ultimately be called upon to bear the burden of payment of the verdict.”
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.