Pennington v. Gillaspie’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 1989 · most notably 151 W. Va. 158 - Morgan v. Price (1966), 38 Cal. 3d 425 - Searle v. Allstate Life Insurance (1985)
39 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 Kerr v. Lunsford · First National Bank of Wellsburg v. Kimberlands · Sweeney v. Baker · Carrico v. W. Va. Cent. & Pa. R'y. Co. · McCoy v. McCoy
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The same is true also as to exemplary damages, for we think such damages should bear some reasonable proportion to the actual damage done else they would be unreasonable'and excessive, evincing partiality and prejudice on the part of the jury, so. as to justify the court in setting the verdict aside. 23 Cyc. 327-331; Stevens v. Friedman, 58 W. Va. 78 .””
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.