Anderson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2014
9 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 Kempter v. Hurd · Uptain v. Huntington Lab, Inc. · Aspen Skiing Co. v. Peer · Larson v. A.T.S.I. · Morgan v. Board of Water Works of Pueblo
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pain and suffering. The Judge has instructed you the plaintiff is only entitled to damages for pain and suffering if that pain and suffering was caused by this accident. That's a difficult question, isn't it? Especially in light of her previous employer's testimony that she was always wearing braces; that it was something new every week. Perhaps ... her emotions are all tied up in her pain and suffering, and I think the records probably reflect that has been the case for a long time. But pain and suffering-any award for pain and suffering has to be reduced by that amount ... that you feel, first, resulted from her failure to wear a seat belt.... Any award has to be reduced by what pain and suffering was not caused by this accident. Those are the pre-existing conditions.... What other evidence is there of pain and suffering? We have heard evidence from the doctors that she went ten months without any treatment and that when they last saw her in June, she didn't have any pain. That's quite inconsistent ... with the story we just heard from plaintiff's counsel. I would suggest, ladies and gentlemen, that a very small award, if any, for the few months that she was treating for her shoulder is all that should be awarded there, because I think it's been shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Thus, provided there is evidence from which it can be inferred with reasonable probability that pain and suffering will occur because of failure to wear a seat belt, it is not necessary that defendant introduce specific evidence that failure to wear a seat belt caused plaintiff to incur more pain and suffering than she otherwise would have.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Watson“unequivocal when considered within the context of the entire closing argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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