Abel v. Conover’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
10 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Braesch v. Union Insurance (1991), Chlopek v. Schmall (1986)
10 district · 33 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 McNish v. General Credit Corporation · Arthur Ex Rel. City of Beatrice v. Trindel · Hall v. Pennsylvania Railroad · School District v. Adams · Wilfong v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ll fines, penalties, and license money arising under the general laws of the state . . . shall belong and be paid over to the counties respectively where the same may be levied or imposed, and all fines, penalties, and license money arising under the rules, bylaws, or ordinances of cities, villages, precincts, or other municipal subdivision less than a county shall belong and be paid over to the same respectively. All such fines, penalties, and license money shall be appropriated exclusively to the use and support of the common schools in the respective subdivisions where the same may accrue ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It has been a fundamental rule of law in this state that punitive, vindicative, or exemplary damages will not be allowed, and that the measure of recovery in all civil cases is compensation for the injury sustained. This rule is so well settled that we dispose of it merely by the citation of cases so holding. Boyer v. Barr, 8 Neb. 68 , 30 Am.Rep. 814 ; Atkins v. Gladwich, 25 Neb. 390 , 41 N.W. 347 ; Bee Publishing Co. v. World Publishing Co., 59 Neb. 713 , 82 N.W. 28 ; Wilfong v. Omaha & Council Bluffs St. Ry. Co., 129 Neb. 600 , 262 N.W. 537 .””
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.