O'Dea v. Amodeo’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Kilduff v. Adams, Inc. (1991), State v. Hayes (1941)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 123 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. · State v. Gargano · Board of Water Commissioners v. Robbins · Mitchell v. Churches · Clark v. Diefendorf
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o general rule can . . . be laid down as to the effect of a particular presumption in the actual trial of a case, for this depends upon the purpose it is designed to serve.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In such a situation the policy of the law requires that, unless the defendant proves the actual circumstances involved in the loss of the goods, the plaintiff should prevail; if the defendant does prove those circumstances, then the burden of showing that upon the whole case he was negligent rests upon the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A presumption established by statute may fall into one or the other of these categories, or the language used may clearly indicate the effect which it is intended to have.”
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.