Lew v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1934
7 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 Wood v. Milly McGuire's Children · State v. Fiester · Jacobs v. Oren
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A verdict should be construed liberally and not under the technical rules of construction which are applicable to pleadings; and, if the meaning of the jury can be ascertained and the point in issue can be concluded from its verdict the court will, however informally it may be expressed, mold it into form, and make it serve.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.