Grant v. McDonogh’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
May 1998
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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.
“exemplary damages allowed should bear some proportion to the real damage sustained.”
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.