Huffstutler v. Coates’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2014
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Carp v. Queen Insurance · Higgins v. Knickmeyer-Fleer Realty & Investment Co. · Sharpe v. Johnston · Kvasnicka v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · Hughes v. Aetna Ins. 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The law concedes a wide latitude of discretion to the jury in actions of this class * * *. Numerous considerations must necessarily enter into the question of what is just compensation in such a case, but no definite rule can be laid down as to any of them. The law has provided that the jury shall decide this question. Disgrace is a relative term. What is such to one man is not necessarily so to another; and, while it applies to each, its effect or measure is great or small as other conditions exist. Mental anxiety and pain caused thereby, and humiliation and danger from a prosecution for a grave criminal offense, are all conditions for the jury, as well as the jeopardy in which the liberty of the plaintiff was placed by such prosecution.’ “Applying the above-stated criteria to the facts in this case and taking into account the facts that an able trial judge considered and rejected defendant’s same contention as to excessiveness, we are of the opinion that we should not interfere with the amount of the judgment”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Witt v. Kroger Co.“do[es] not necessarily subscribe to or affirm the proposition that the rule in [Missouri] is that a presumption which arises or a prima facie case of probable cause which is made by reason of an order of a magistrate binding over an accused to the circuit court is conclusive unless overcome only by evidence that the magistrate’s order was obtained by false testimony or other improper means.”
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.