Arnett v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 389 So. 2d 999 - Bishop v. Florida Specialty Paint Co. (1980), Combs II Cta II v. International Insurance Company (2004)
5 federal appellate · 17 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 26 Wis. 2d 617 - Wilcox v. Wilcox · Heath v. Zellmer · Sutherland v. Davis · Wessling v. Paris · Brown v. Gosser
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but simply on the basis of whether Kentucky has enough contacts to justify applying Kentucky law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is argued that there was no showing of impairment of earning capacity of Miss Thompson such as to warrant the instruction allowing recovery for that. The claim is that the evidence did not show she had any permanent physical impairment, and in any event she had no earning capacity before the accident because she had never had a job. In our opinion, the medical evidence of her doctor, to the effect that she had sustained an injury to her neck and thoracic lumbar spine that was ‘certain to become chronic,’ was sufficient to sustain a finding of permanent injury. And of course the fact that she, at 19 years of age, was just out of high school and had never had a job does not mean that she could not sustain a loss of earning capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Gilbert“if the accident occurs in Kentucky ... there is enough contact from that fact alone to justify applying Kentucky law.”
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.