McMath Co. v. Staten’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1957
4 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 International & Great Northern Railroad v. Butcher · Breckenridge Ice & Cold Storage Co. v. Hutchens · 40 Tex. Civ. App. 209 - Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Nesbit · 43 Tex. Civ. App. 247 - Texas & New Orleans Railway Co. v. McCraw · Andrews v. Wilding
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What amount of money, if any, if paid now in cash, do you find from a preponderance of the evidence will fáirly and reasonably compensate the plaintiff for the injuries, if any, he received, as a result of drinking the Hires root beer in question ? “In estimating such damages, if any, if you find that the plaintiff suffered mental and physical pain, proximately resulting from the occurrence complained of by the plaintiff, you may take that into consideration and allow such sum which, if paid now in cash, you find will reasonably compensate him for such mental and physical pain, if any, which you find he has suffered in the past, proximately resulting from the occurrence complained of; and if you find that the plaintiff will (in all reasonable probability) suffer mental and physical pain in the future proximately resulting from the occurrence complained of by the plaintiff, you may take that into consideration and allow such sum which you find, if paid in cash now, would reasonably compensate him for such mental and physical pain, if any, as you find he will (in all reasonable probability) suffer in the future, proximately resulting from the occurrence complained of.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Luparello v. Lott
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.