DiFranco v. Pickard’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 110 state decisions

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

1. ““(a) What body function, if any, was impaired because of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident? “(b) Was the impairment of body function serious?” Dodson, supra at 499 , 665 A.2d at 1233 , citing DiFranco v. Pickard, 427 Mich. 32, 39 , 398 N.W.2d 896, 901 (1986).”

   13 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yannuzzi v. Reed · Atkinson v. Snyder

2. “[t]he question of whether the plaintiff suffered a serious impairment of body function must be submitted to the trier of fact whenever the evidence would cause reasonable minds to differ as to the answer. This is true even where there is no material factual dispute as to the nature and extent of the plaintiff’s injuries.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 229 Mich. App. 483 - Lewis v. Krogol · Washington v. Baxter

3. “[s]ection 3135(1) of Michigan’s no-fault automobile insurance law permits a person injured in a motor vehicle accident to recover damages for noneconomic loss from a negligent owner or operator of a motor vehicle only if the person suffered death, serious impairment of body function, or permanent serious disfigurement....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 229 Mich. App. 483 - Lewis v. Krogol · 736 F. Supp. 744 - Partlow v. Jones Motor Co., Inc.