Anderson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2015
20 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 Swieckowski Ex Rel. Swieckowski v. City of Fort Collins · CeBuzz, Inc. v. Sniderman · General Electric Co. v. Niemet · Brady v. City and County of Denver · 30 Colo. App. 393 - White v. DIRECTOR OF DIVISION OF LABOR, DEPT. OF L. & E.
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.
“By decreasing the amount of pain and suffering damages in proportion to injuries attributable to seat belt nonuse, the General Assembly sent a signal to drivers and front seat passengers to buckle up.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carlson v. Ferris“Such mitigation shall be limited to awards for pain and suffering and shall not be used for limiting recovery of economic loss and medical payments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pringle v. Valdez“sen[d] a signal to drivers and front-seat passengers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pringle v. Valdez
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.