Stevens v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2002
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.
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.
“in order to recover the extraordinary damages given by the statute . . . but it is conceded to be necessary to state such facts in the complaint as will clearly bring the defendant within the provisions of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whatever may be the elements of the offense for which triple damages may be imposed, it is certain that those elements must be alleged and proved in order to justify a judgment for such damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he triple damages are given the injured party, not as compensation for the injury done him, but as a punishment of the defendant for an offense committed against the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.