Ayers-Schaffner v. Solomon’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2016
16 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 Town of Scituate v. O'ROURKE · White v. Violent Crimes Compensation Board · Town of North Kingstown v. North Kingstown Teachers Ass'n · Souza v. O'HARA · City of Warwick v. Almac's, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the plaintiff is the victim’s estate, it shall only be awarded compensation for the victim’s actual medical, hospital, funeral and burial expenses for which the victim or his estate is not compensated by any other source and for the loss of support to the dependents of the victim.” P.L.1984, ch. 354, § 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Pezzulli v. State
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.