Womack v. Gettelfinger’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 446 · 1986
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2004
7 federal appellate ·
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 Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Baskett v. United States · Aetna Life Insurance v. Lavoie · Lazenby Ex Rel. Lazenby v. Universal Underwriters Insurance
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [are] not the stuff of which ... punitive damages awards are made--at least not in Tennessee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leap v. Malone F & K“[P]oor judgment and lack of ordinary care,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leap v. Malone F & K
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.