Lewis v. Hubert’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Firestone v. Crown Center Redevelopment Corp. (1985), Emery v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (1998)
25 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 Stephens v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad · Appelhans v. Goldman · Welch v. Sheley · Hay v. Ham · Moore v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is incompetent on any issue, not only because irrelevant, but because calculated to appeal to the sympathy of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. McCoy
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.