Loftus v. Maxey’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Texas Power & Light Co. v. Jones (1927), Arant v. Jaffe (1968)
27 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the proof satisfy you that the defendants, or either of them, or some one acting for them and in their employ and under their command, did take and remove the bed as alleged in the plaintiff’s petition, without the consent of Sallie Maxey, and if the manner of defendants, or either of them, in the taking was by threats, or in an insolent, overbearing, and insulting mariner, done in such a way as would naturally outrage the feelings of plaintiffs, then you will find for plaintiffs for such an amount as you may deem proper and adequate; for if you so find the facts the law allows the jury to affix such an amount as in the opinion of the jury such wrongful acts call for; such damages are called vindictive damages or smart money.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. McClain
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.