Schuman v. Chatman’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Drum Standish Commission Co. v. First National Bank & Trust Co. · Ft. Smith W. R. Co. v. Ford · Federal Nat. Bank v. McDonald · Holmes v. Chadwell · Firebaugh v. Gunther
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“23 Oklahoma Statutes § 9 provides: “Jury may give exemplary damages, when “In any action for the breach of an obligation not arising from contract, where the defendant has been guilty of oppression, fraud or malice, actual or presumed, the jury, in addition to the actual damages, may give damages for the sake of example, and by way of punishing the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may be inferred from acts constituting such gross negligence as to warrant the inference of or to be deemed equivalent to an evil intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Wade“defective in form only, ..., with the assent of the jury, before they are discharged.”
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.