Wilcox v. Leake’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2001
most recently cited
3 state decisions
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the peculiar province of a jury to make the assessment of damages in such cases, in which much discretion is vested in them.... Were it otherwise, the witnesses, and not the jury, would be the judges to determine the matter.”
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.