McGehee v. Shafer’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1946
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Matters which go merely in aggravation or in extenuation, and whose effect is but to enhance or diminish the damages, need not be pleaded. They are necessarily incidental to or intimately connected with, and inseparable from, the facts which constitute the cause of action or ground of defense, which they merely serve to qualify or illustrate, and, in connection with which they are always admissible in evidence as a part of the res gestae, without being specially pleaded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Hall
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.