McCafferty v. Musat’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2013
21 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 Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc. · Ralph W. Moores, Jr. v. Nathan Greenberg, Ralph W. Moores, Jr. v. Nathan Greenberg · 39 Colo. App. 1 - Miller v. Carnation Co. · Jefferson County School District R-1 v. Justus ex rel. Justus · DeCaire v. Public Service Company
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An injury is personal when it impairs the well-being or the mental or physical health of the victim.... In contrast, an injury is not personal when inflicted on property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“underlying physical harm upon which [plaintiff] would have recovered ... was clearly personal,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“places on plaintiffs shoulders the necessity of paying twice for the same service”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shoemake v. Ferrer
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.