Bowers v. Sprouse’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Jenkins v. Pyles (2005), Walker v. Mason (1999)
48 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 Philip Morris, Inc. v. Emerson · Smithey v. Sinclair Refining Co. · Bradner v. Mitchell · Rome v. Kelly Springfield Tire Co. · Brown v. Huddleston
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Cjompensation for pain and suffering is within the discretion of the 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.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Nguyen v. Peters
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.