Edwards v. Stills’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Dodson v. Allstate Insurance (2001), Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Foote (2000)
2 federal appellate · 90 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · Baxter v. Palmigiano · Henderson v. Brown
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Damage resulting from loss of earning capacity is the loss of the ability to earn in the future. The impairment of the capacity to earn is the gravamen of the element. Proof of this element does not, however, require the same specificity or detail as does proof of loss of future wages. The reason is that the jury can observe the appearance of the plaintiff, his age, and the nature of the injuries that will impair his capacity to earn. A serious or permanent injury may sustain the submission of the issue of loss of earning capacity to the jury.... Thus, the relevant inquiry is whether there was some evidence of [the plaintiffs] loss of earning capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) the degree of reprehensibility of the defendant’s conduct; (2) the disparity between the harm or potential harm suffered by the plaintiff and his punitive damages award; and (3) the difference between this remedy and the civil penalties authorized by statute or imposed in comparable cases.”
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.