Shane v. Rhines’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2017
17 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 Goldsboro Christian Schools, Inc. v. United States · Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. v. Day · Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. v. Day · Clary Insurance Agency v. Doyle · Caterpillar Tractor Co. v. Beck
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.
“[a] defendant's insurance policy is a part of his financial resources and will obviously affect the degree to which a defendant is punished by a punitive damage award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the needed evidence of the defendant's wealth, including evidence of any insurance coverage, could be presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.