Cartwright v. Canode’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
466 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 473 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably In Re King's Estate (1951), Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado (1949)
466 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 473 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a given state of facts is such that reasonable men may fairly differ upon the, question as to whether there was negligence or not, the determination of the matter is for the jury. It is only where the facts are such that all. reasonable men must draw the same conclusion from them that the question of negligence is ever considered as one of law for the courts.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We must reject all evidence favorable to the plaintiffs in error and consider only the facts and circumstances which tend to sustain the verdict, and if the jury, in an honest and impartial effort to arrive at the truth, might have reached the conclusion embodied in this verdict, this court cannot set it aside.” Cartwright v. Canode, 171 S. W. 696 .”
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.