Baxter v. Magill’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1953
2 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 Buckley v. Knapp · Goetz v. Ambs · Beck v. Dowell · Dailey v. Houston · Deitring v. St. Louis Transit Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * And, for that matter, if the point had merit, the allegations of malicious and unlawful assault and battery contained in the body of the petition would be construed as having a direct bearing upon, and be considered in connection with, the prayer for punitive damages, inasmuch as such damages are awarded, when awarded at all in these cases, because of the malicious character of the assault.”
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.