Pegram v. Stortz’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably 137 W. Va. 694 - Cato v. Silling (1952), 147 W. Va. 575 - Lester v. Rose (1963)
28 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 Day v. Woodworth · Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company v. Apms et al. · The Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company v. Philip Quigley · Insurance Company v. Brame · The Amiable Nancy
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled, in cases arising under statutes similar to ours, that no exemplary damages can ever be given in any case, unless actual pecuniary loss has been sustained by injury to the persons, property, or means of support of the wife or plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.