Humphreys v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 1974
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Aluminum Co. of North America v. Ramsey · Blankenship v. State · Keller v. White · Elmore v. Dillard · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Hutchinson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the undisputed evidence shows that plaintiff is entitled to recover substantial damages, a judgment will be reversed which awards only nominal damages, because a judgment for nominal damages is, in effect, a refusal to assess damages. When substantial damages are awarded, a judgment will not be reversed because of inadequacy, if there be no other error than that committed by the jury in measuring the damages. But a judgment even for substantial damages will be reversed where the undisputed testimony shows the damages to be inadequate, if error of a substantial and prejudicial nature was committed at the trial of the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ennis v. Brainerd
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.