Rodriguez v. Schutt’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Gerrity Oil & Gas Corp. v. Magness (1997), AviComm, Inc. v. Colorado Public Utilities Commission (1998)
4 district · 38 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 Estate of Stevenson Ex Rel. Talovich v. Hollywood Bar & Cafe, Inc. · People v. Zapotocky · Lujan v. Colorado State Board of Education · Committee for Better Health Care for All Colorado Citizens v. Meyer · Allstate Insurance Co. v. Starke
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e must read and consider the statute as a whole in order to give consistent, harmonious, and sensible effect to all of its parts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“eliminate the financial incentive (or disincentive) to appeal and to ensure that the judgment creditor whose satisfaction is delayed due to an unsuccessful appeal receives the time value of his or her money judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) In all actions brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by any person resulting from or occasioned by the tort of any other person ... it is lawful for the plaintiff in the complaint to claim interest on the damages claimed from the date the action accrued. When such interest is so claimed, it is the duty of the court in entering judgment for the plaintiff in such action to add to the amount of damages assessed by the verdict of the jury ... interest on such amount calculated at the rate of nine percent per annum on actions filed on or after July 1, 1975 ... and calculated from the date such suit was filed to the date of satisfying the judgment and to include the same in said judgment as a part thereof. On actions filed on or after July 1, 1979, the calculation shall include compounding of interest annually from the date such suit was filed. On and after January 1, 19838, if a judgment for money in an action brought to recover damages for personal injuries is appealed by the judgment debtor, interest, whether prejudgment or postjudgment, shall be calculated on such sum at the rate set forth in subsections (3) and (4) of this section from the date the action accrued and shall include compounding of interest anmually from the date such suit was filed. [[Image here]] [(2)](b) If a judgment for money in an action to recover damages for personal injuries is appealed by a judgment debtor and the judgment is modified or reversed with a direction that a judgment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sperry v. Field · Sperry v. Field
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.