Butcher v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Brown v. Hoblitzell (1957), Banks v. Fritsch (2001)
31 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 Jones v. Van Bever · Texas Midland Railroad v. Dean · Sumpter v. Burchett, as Commonwealth's Atty. · Elder v. Florsheim Shoe Company · Linville v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court admonished the jury, however, that it was only admissible “for the purpose of affecting the measure of damages,” and for such purpose it was proper.”
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.