Richardson v. LaBuz’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Eisenberg v. Gagnon (1985), Ciccarelli v. Carey Canadian Mines, Ltd. (1985)
5 federal appellate · 32 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 Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Liepelt · Smith v. Bell Telephone Co. · Bridwell v. United States · Mayle v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (e), in an action seeking monetary relief for bodily injury ... the court ... shall (1) add to the amount of compensatory damages ... in the verdict of a jury ... damages for delay at ten (10) percent per annum, not compounded, which shall become part of the ... verdict ... (c) Except as provided in subdivision (e), damages for delay shall be added to the ... verdict ... against all defendants found liable____ (e) If a defendant at any time prior to trial makes a written offer of settlement in a specified sum with prompt cash payment to the plaintiff and continues that offer in effect until commencement of trial, but the offer is not accepted and the plaintiff does not recover by ... verdict ..., exclusive of damages for delay, more than 125 percent of the offer, the court ... shall not award damages for delay for the period after the date the offer was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial judge correctly overruled an objection on behalf of [the named defendant] to that mere analogy, which did not amount to a direct statement suggesting any specific sum. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the principle announced in Koppers should ... be given prospective effect only.”
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.