French v. Grigsby’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2016
13 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 Garza v. Alviar · Abalos v. Oil Development Co. of Texas · Houston Transit Co. v. Felder · Edwards v. Strong · Fountain v. Ferguson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In answering this special issue you shall not award any sum of money on any element if you have otherwise, under some other element, awarded a sum of money for the same loss, that is, do not compensate twice for the same loss if any.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(T]he separate submission of an issue on physical impairment is sometimes proper; ... this is one of the unusual cases wherein such submission was authorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Minick“diminished capacity to work and earn money.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dougherty v. Gifford
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.