Bova v. Gary’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on C. Severin Buschmann, Jr. v. Professional Men's Association · Smith Setzer & Sons, Inc. v. South Carolina Procurement Review Panel · Gullett v. Van Dyke Construction Co. · Glass v. Oeder · Ewing v. Esterholt
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not asserting a claim for lost profits on behalf of [the corporation]. To the contrary, he is asserting a claim only for his own personal injuries and the damages that are directly related to those injuries, including the value of his lost earning capacity that resulted from his inability to work while he recovered from his injuries.... Because [the plaintiff] is attempting to redress a personal, rather than a corporate, injury, the rule prohibiting shareholders from maintaining a corporate cause of action does not bar his recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it was within the trial court's discretion to admit the evidence of [the corporation's] lost profits to establish a value for [the plaintiff's] individual losses that he sustained as a result of [the defendant's] negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o prove the value of his lost earning capacity.”
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.