Proffitt v. Ricci’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 929 F. Supp. 562 - Iacampo v. Hasbro, Inc. (1996), Simpson v. Dailey (1985)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 29 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 Webbier v. Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, Inc. · State v. Ramsdell · Calci v. Brown · Tilley v. Mather · Ruggieri v. Beauregard
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a physical act of a threatening nature or an offer of corporal injury which puts an individual in reasonable fear of imminent bodily harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““an act that was intended to cause, and in fact did cause, ‘an offensive contact with or uneonsented touching of or trauma upon the body of another, thereby generally resulting in the consummation of the assault. * * * An intent to injure plaintiff, however, is unnecessary in a situation in which a defendant willfully sets in motion a force that in its ordinary course causes the injury.”’ Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hennessey v. Pyne“not necessary that defendant intend to injure plaintiff. To constitute a battery, it is enough to set in motion willfully a force that in its ordinary course causes an injury.”
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.