Karas v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2013
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 4 Smith & H. 173 - Reeves v. Catignani · Lunn v. Ealy · Meyer v. Cooper · McCullough v. Johnson Freight Lines, Inc. · Transports, Inc. v. Perry
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact a given amount is proven as undisputed medical expenses does not prove those expenses were necessary. The jury has the duty to weigh the testimony and to give to each witness that degree of credibility it deems proper. When that credibility is established and reflected in a verdict which is approved by the trial judge, appellate courts must give great weight to the decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Chesor
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.