Brabham v. Mississippi ex rel. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.2d 210 · 1938
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably Doris R. Edwards, Etc., Cross-Appellant v. Sears, Roebuck and Company, Cross-Appellees (1975), Westbrook v. General Tire & Rubber Co. (1985)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Dimick v. Schiedt · McDonald v. Pless · Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. · Lake Shore Ry Co v. Prentice · Minneapolis St Ry Co v. Moquin
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile mere excessiveness in the amount to be awarded may be cured by a remittitur, that excessiveness which results from passion and prejudice, however natural the resentment which arouses it, may not be so cured.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.