Hanberry v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Spingola v. Spingola (1978), Sundance Mechanical & Utility Corp. v. Atlas (1990)
41 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 Frei v. Brownlee · Baros v. Kazmierczwk · Jackson v. Southwestern Public Service Company · Hall v. Stiles · Mitchell v. Allison
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [he] bears a heavy burden, in view of the long-standing rule that we will not overturn the action of the trial court absent a patent abuse or manifest error in the exercise of discretion. [Citations omitted.] * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schaab v. Schaab“that it is not truly supported by the evidence and therefore must indicate that the jury was mistaken in the measure of damages”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“claim that the verdict [was] excessive, requiring a remittitur or a new trial”
1 later decision 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.