Ackerman v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1993
8 federal appellate · 11 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 Thompson v. Texas Mexican Railway Co. · McNulta v. Lochridge · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Thompson · Trigg v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Co. · 232 Mo. App. 575 - Lyons v. St. Joseph Belt Railway 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * `Mental pain and suffering proximately resulting from a wrong which in itself constitutes a cause of action is a proper element of compensatory damages.' [Citing 25 C.J.S. Damages § 63] * * * mental pain and suffering is a proximate result of a wrong which affects a man's economic security and prevents him from earning a living for himself and family.”
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.