Bonnette v. Conoco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Ayers (2003), Arabie v. CITGO Petroleum Corp. (2012)
1 district · 28 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 617 So. 2d 880 - Stobart v. State Through DOTD · Arceneaux v. Domingue · Irvine v. People of State of California · Sistler v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.
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.
“especial likelihood of genuine and serious mental distress, arising from the special circumstances, which serves as a guarantee that the claim is not spurious.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A review of jurisprudence from other states reveals that a majority of jurisdictions have not recognized a cause of action for increased risk of future injury when the potential for the occurrence of future injury is speculative or merely 'possible.' ”); Mauro v. Raymark Indus., Inc., 116 N.J. 126, 139 , 561 A.2d 257, 264 (1989) (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“highly unreasonable conduct, involving an extreme departure from ordinary care, in a situation where a high degree of danger is apparent;”
3 later decisions 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.