Coppinger v. Broderick’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1967
17 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 110 Mo. App. 391 - Ballard v. Kansas City · United Verde Copper Co. v. Wiley · Brininstool v. Michigan United Railways Co. · Kethledge v. City of Petoskey · Matthews v. Lamberton
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After all, in its final analysis the rule is but a monition to the jury. The common sense, experience, and conscience of the jury, if responsive, will guide it to the same end, whether it is told that it must be reasonably certain of future pain and suffering or satisfied that in all probability or likelihood future pain and suffering will ensue.””
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.