McVay v. Cowger’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2005
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 Manzo v. Boulet · Dunbar v. Cowger · Martin v. Street Improvement District No. 349 · Krummen Motor Bus & Taxi Co. v. Mechanics' Lumber Co. · Carroll v. Texarkana Gas & Electric Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In law cases the verdict is an entity which we cannot divide by affirming the finding of liability and yet remanding the cause upon the issue of damages.” Manzo v. Boulet, 220 Ark. 106 , 246 S.W.2d 126 (1952), citing Martin v. Street Improvement District No. 349, 180 Ark. 298 , 21 S.W.2d 430 (1929). This has long been our law. Krummen Motor Bus & Taxi Co. v. Mechanics’ Lumber Co., 175 Ark. 750 , 300 S.W. 389 (1927); Martin v. Kraemer, 172 Ark. 397 , 288 S.W. 903 (1926); Bothe v. Morris, 103 Ark. 370 , 146 S.W. 1184 (1912); Carroll v. Texarkana Gas & Electric Co., 102 Ark. 137 , 142 S.W. 586 (1912); and Dunbar v. Cowger, 68 Ark. 444 , 59 S.W. 951 (1900).”
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.