Keller v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably State Ex Rel. St. Joseph Belt Railway Co. v. Shain (1937), State v. Conway (1941)
25 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 Summers v. Keller · State ex rel. New York Life Insurance v. Philips · Clark v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. · Rodgers v. Western Home Town Mutual Fire Insurance · Ex parte Conrades
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Punitive damages may be recovered where a proper basis therefor is laid in the petition and proved, although the plaintiff recovers only nominal actual damages.””
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.