Bedgood v. Madalin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) Whether plaintiff was located near the scene of the accident as contrasted with one who was a distance away from it. (2) Whether the shock resulted from a direct emotional impact upon plaintiff from the sensory and contemporaneous observance of the accident. (3) Whether plaintiff and the victim were closely related, as contrasted with an absence of any relationship or the presence of only a distant relationship.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dawson v. Garcia · Apache Ready Mix Co., Inc. v. Creed

2. “Now come James Hamilton Bedgood and Robert E. Sorenson, Defendants, and file this their Admission of Liability for such damages as the jury may determine resulted to Plaintiffs from the accident of September 14, 1974, described in Plaintiffs' petition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bedgood v. Madalin