Engle v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
August 1959
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Howard v. Marshall Motor Co., 22,643 (Kan. 5-8-1920) · Smith v. City Ice & Delivery Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term, `a pure accident, for which no one was responsible,' as used in the above instruction, was for this case an appropriate and sufficient definition of the term `unavoidable accident.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yessler v. Dodson
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.