Myers v. Broussard’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Bellville v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. (2005), 729 So. 2d 1112 - Edwards v. Daugherty (1999)
35 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 Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · 623 So. 2d 1257 - Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp. · Maritime Overseas Corp. v. Hae Woo Youn · 475 So. 2d 1085 - McDill v. Utica Mut. Ins. Co. · 587 So. 2d 5 - Veazey v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An award for loss of future earning capacity is not based merely upon the difference between the injured person's pre-accident wages and post-accident wages but rather it should be based on the difference between the injured person's earning capacity before and after the accident.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“However, the jury must have a reasonable basis for exercising its discretion, and the record must provide a factual basis for the award.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Past lost wages are susceptible of being calculated with mathematical certainty from the proof offered at trial, and thus, such an award is an exception to the much discretion rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.