Fitzgerald v. Rendene’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2000
22 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 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.
““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.