McCurry v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2015
16 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 Berkebile v. Outen · Watts v. Malatesta · Petty v. Weyerhaeuser Co. · State v. Somerset · Sherman v. Sherman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When issues not raised in the pleadings are tried by consent, they will be treated as if they had been raised in the pleadings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person who shall at any time or sitting, by playing at cards, dice table or any other game whatsoever or by betting on the sides or hands of such as do play at any of the games aforesaid, lose to any person or persons ... in the whole, the sum or value of fifty dollars and shall pay or deliver such sum or value or any part thereof shall be at liberty, within three months ... to sue for and recover the money ... from the respective winner or winners thereof, with costs of suit, by action to be prosecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o allow a gambler to recover losses and pocket winnings would create a perverse result contrary to legislative intent: Granting a windfall to a gambler would neither punish excessive gaming nor protect a gambler and his family from the gambler's irresistible impulses”
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.