DiMeo v. Philbin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2014
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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 Kastal v. Hickory House, Inc. · Anter v. Ambeault · Andrade v. State · Isserlis v. Director of Public Works · Brimbau v. Ausdale Equipment Rental Corp.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Legislature's primary intention [in enacting the prejudgment interest statute] was not to add interest but to establish a device to encourage settlements of cases sounding in tort without undue delay.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]tatutory prejudgment interest is not an element of damages in a personal injury action under Rhode Island law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is purely statutory and is peremptorily added to the jury verdict by the clerk of the court.” Id. Moreover, with reference to § 9-21-10, we expressly indicated as follows:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.