Odom v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2013
4 federal appellate · 8 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 Washington Gas Light Co. v. Lansden · Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Stevenson · 53 Tenn. App. 139 - Booth v. Kirk · 35 Tenn. App. 678 - Suzore v. Rutherford · Kauffman v. AH Robins Company
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.
“... The damages which would operate as a proper punishment to one man might be inadequate to that effect upon another, by reason of their difference in pecuniary condition; and on the contrary, a verdict that would be scarcely regarded by a wealthy man, might be ruinous to a poor man.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Can punitive damages or “smart” money be awarded against joint or multiple defendants when the financial worth of only one defendant is introduced into evidence?”
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.