Falkenberg v. Neff’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1991
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.
Relationships
Relies on Rider v. York Haven Water & Power Co. · 82 W. Va. 270 - Pendleton v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. · 55 Cal. App. 408 - Plotnik v. Rosenberg · Jensen v. Denver & Rio Grande Ry. Co. · Shepard v. Payne
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.
““* * * There is no definite basis upon which the amount can be computed, but there must necessarily be a limit to the amount which may be awarded. It is the general rule that the award should not be disproportionate to the actual damage sustained, or should bear some relation to the injury complained of and the cause thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. Gaisford“[W]hen [an exemplary damages award] is so flagrantly excessive and unjust as to indicate a disregard of the rules of law by which damages are regulated, it is then subject to review and correction as a matter of law.”
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.