Sebring v. Colver’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2017
17 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 City of Whittier v. Whittier Fuel & Marine Corp. · Haskins v. Shelden · Davis v. Chism · Ahlstrom v. Cummings · King v. SUPERIOR COURT, IN & FOR COUNTY OF MARICOPA
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the financial impact of the passage of time was thus incorporated into the jury’s damage award, any award of prejudgment interest on this amount would therefore constitute a double recovery.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A new trial may be granted to all or any of the parties and on all or part of the issues in an action in which there has been a trial by jury or in an action tried without a jury, if required in the interest of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Luther v. Lander“To allow [a party] to challenge [a judge's qualification] merely because his rulings ... were not as favorable as [the party] had desired would subvert the purpose of the waiver provision.”
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.