Armstead v. Holbert’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2004
5 federal appellate · 12 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 146 W. Va. 484 - Graham v. Wriston · 3 Utah 2d 134 - Devine v. Cook · Crum v. Ward · Haralson v. Jones Truck Lines · 62 So. 2d 355 - Rodi v. Florida Greyhound Lines
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * it could not be said to be excessive as a matter of law and would not be set aside upon the ground of excessiveness alone.”
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.