Morrison v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2008
11 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 Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Hillmon · People v. Madson · Espinoza v. O'DELL · Alexander Film Company v. Industrial Commission · Pierce v. Conners
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]ere disagreement with the amount of damages awarded is not a sufficient ground to overturn an award of damages which is supported by competent evidence in the record ... It is the sole province of the jury to fix fair and just damages ... Only upon a showing of arbitrary or capricious jury action, or that the jury was swayed by passion or prejudice, should an appellate court overturn a jury verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“net pecuniary loss suffered by the survivor,”
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.