Vasconcellos v. Juarez’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2021
19 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 Ward v. Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. · Tsuruoka Ex Rel. Tsuruoka v. Lukens
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.
“* * * [A] finding of an amount of damages is so much within the exclusive province of the jury that it will not be disturbed on appellate review unless palpably not supported by the evidence, or so excessive and outrageous when considered with the circumstances of the case as to demonstrate that the jury in assessing damages acted against rules of law or suffered their passions or prejudices to mislead them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Sartain“in favor of the jury's award and to that end give the evidence the strongest probative force it will admit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Sartain
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.