Chappell v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2008
17 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 Rawle v. McIlhenny · Steinman v. Clinchfield Coal Corp. · Glass v. David Pender Grocery Co. · Chappell v. White · E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. v. Taylor
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no measure of damages in cases of this kind and there has not yet been discovered any standard by which to measure in dollar and cents the value of physical pain and suffering. It is a matter which must be left to the judgment and discretion of an impartial jury, and no mere difference of opinion of the trial judge, however decided, will justify an interference with their verdict, unless it appears from the record that the jury has been influenced by partiality or prejudice, or have been misled by some mistaken view of the merits of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessarily involved in the first appeal, whether actually adjudicated or not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.