Randall v. . Packard’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably Matter of Tillman (1932), County of Campbell v. Howard (1922)
55 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of that the jury are the sole judges, and, to arrive at their value, they may consider the nature of the services rendered, the standing of the attorney in his profession for learning, skill, and proficiency, the amount involved, and the importance to his client of the result””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fuller v. Tolman““Whatever our opinion might still be as to the amount awarded by the jury,, upon the evidence before them, we are concluded from any expression by their verdict, and if there was no error committed upon the trial, the judgment: must stand.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fuller v. Tolman
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.