Campbell v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Howe v. ALD Services, Inc. (1997), Blue Cross Health Services, Inc. v. Sauer (1990)
33 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 Home Trust Co. v. Josephson · Douglass v. Safire · Haley v. Byers Transportation Company · Morse v. Johnson · Carondelet Savings & Loan Assn. v. Boyer
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The terms of the note also provided for the award of attorney’s fees, and plaintiffs presented undisputed evidence as to the amount of their attorney’s fees. The court, as an expert on attorney’s fees, may award reasonable amounts as a matter of law. Oberkrom v. Oberkrom, 608 S.W.2d 449 (Mo.App.1980), Carondelet Savings & Loan Association v. Boyer, 595 S.W.2d 744 (Mo.App.1980).” Campbell v. Kelley, 719 S.W.2d 769, 772 (Mo. banc 1986). (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The jury’s intent becomes clear when the verdict and the instructions are considered together ... Once the jury found for plaintiffs, their damages in the form of principal, interest and attorney's fees followed as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n suits involving unliquidated damages where the jury finds for plaintiff but does not award damages the federal courts treat the verdict as one for the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Marler
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.