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← 98 R.I. 239 - Fitzgerald v. Rendene

Fitzgerald v. Rendene’s Empirical Analysis

1964

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
May 2000
most recently cited

22 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2000

22 state decisions

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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 Tilley v. Mather · Sayegh v. Davis · O'BRIEN v. Waterman · Loughran v. McKenna · Colantonio v. Ellinwood

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““to determine whether there was such a demonstrable disparity between the awards and the damages sustained as a consequence of the injury as to make the verdicts grossly inadequate. If so, substantial justice between the parties would- not be achieved and the verdicts would not respond truly to the real merits of the controversies on the evidence submitted.” Id. at 241 , 201 A.2d at 138 .”
    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.