Benjamin v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1963
20 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be, that, under the fifth statutory ground for a new trial, — ‘insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict’ — a party might urge that a jury found against the evidence in finding a less sum than the evidence established as the amount of damages sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Riggs v. Smith
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.