Flowers v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1968
14 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 Callahan v. Ingram · Mooney v. Kennett · Christal v. Craig · Brownell v. Pacific Railroad · Birch v. Benton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On principle it must obtain that where the several causes of action are united in one count, and the case is tried on all, and a single verdict and assessment of damages in favor of the plaintiff, if one or more of the causes of action assigned be bad, so as not to support the verdict, the verdict must be bad as to all. How is it possible for the court to tell whether the jury took one or all the alleged slanderous words into their estimation? How much proof of the imperfect cause and how much of the good, did the jury consider? Was it the fact proveji touching the bad count that influenced the verdict, and if so, to what extent?””
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.