McClellan v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Arthur Young & Co. v. Reves (1991), Dews v. Halliburton Industries, Inc. (1986)
4 federal appellate · 12 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 61 Ill. 2d 31 - Mattyasovszky v. West Towns Bus Co. · Ray Dodge, Inc. v. Moore · Atkins Pickle Co., Inc. v. Burrough-Uerling-Brasuell Consulting Engineers, Inc. · Curtis v. Partain · Morrow v. First Nat. Bank of Hot Springs
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we must always consider circumstances other than the wrongdoer's intention to do what he did, in order to determine whether punitive damages are appropriate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A bare allegation of fraud which results in a monetary loss would not justify punitive damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“punitive damages are not ordinarily recoverable for breach of contract.”
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.