Mayo v. Borden, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 671 · 1986
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2013
12 federal appellate · 1 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 Davis v. Alaska · Scheib v. Williams-McWilliams Co. · Clegg v. Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. · McCullough v. Beech Aircraft Corp. · Lewis v. Holmes
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We note in passing that Louisiana law appears to allow recovery for the mental anguish caused by viewing the peril or injury of another in two restricted instances: (1) where provided by Louisiana's Wrongful Death Act ...; and (2) where defendant’s activity or conduct breaches a primary and independent duty owed to the bystander.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Trial courts are accorded great latitude in shaping instructions, and a verdict-based judgment will be reversed because of an erroneous instruction only when the charge as a whole leaves us with substantial and ineradicable doubt whether the jury has been properly guided in its deliberations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Louisiana courts have allowed recovery for ... mental anguish extant in situations involving the damages of property in view.”
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.