Butts v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. (1962), Ross v. Hartman (1943)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 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 Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Kline v. Moyer and Albert · Osborne v. Montgomery · Lauson v. Town of Fond du Lac · Kellogg v. Chicago & Northwestern 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Compensation for pain and suffering is hard to measure, and must rest in the discretion of the jury, guided by common sense.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * Whenever the Legislature enacts a safety statute, it declares that injury from violation of it is reasonably to be anticipated. The Legislature establishes the standard of care to be exercised and liability for injury resulting from violation of the standard follows.””
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.