Lefavi v. Bertoch’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
April 2013
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daniels v. Lassalle · Central South Carolina Chapter v. Martin · State v. Pena · Valcarce v. Fitzgerald · State v. Copeland
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court is in the best position to assess the credibility of witnesses and to derive a sense of the proceeding as a whole, something an appellate court cannot hope to garner from a cold record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A prejudgment interest award is proper when 'the damage is complete, the loss can be measured by the facts and figures, and the amount of loss is fixed as of a particular time'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Findings of fact ... shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous.”
2 later decisions 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.