Shelley v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1986
19 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 Miller v. Blanton · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. McDaniel · Ala. Great Southern Railroad v. Frazier · Donley v. Amerada Petroleum Corp. · Ala. Great Southern Railroad v. Sellers
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that [in] a civil suits [sic] for an assault or assault and battery, the jury in its discretion may award punitive damages whenever there is averment and proof tending to show that the act charged was wrongful and attended with an insult and other circumstances of aggravation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peete v. Blackwell
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.