Adams’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2016
4 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 Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg · Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton · Kachina Plywood, Inc. v. Hurt · Brown v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pruitt , however, constitutes an exception to the general rule prohibiting the recovery of purely economic losses absent physical impact (footnote omitted). In cases in which a plaintiffs business is partially based upon the exercise of a public right, the plaintiff may be able to recover purely economic damages caused by a defendant’s negligence in polluting the public resource upon which the plaintiff relies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“injury or damage to person or property, real or personal, loss of income, loss of the means of producing income, or loss of the use of the damaged property for recreational, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other reasonable uses”
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.