Powell v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2007
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 Georgia Home Insurance v. Goode & Co. · Whitley v. Booker Brick Co. · Russell Lumber Co. v. Lambert
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that in a case of this kind, involving an unliquidated damage claim for personal injury, post-verdict amendments increasing the ad damnum may not be granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is fundamental that the judge, the jury, and the litigants should understand the issues being tried before the testimony is concluded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“applies with greater force to post-verdict amendments of the pleadings.”
1 later decision 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.