Mitton v. Cargill Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Hallada v. Great Northern Railway (1955), Leblanc v. Grillo (1942)
1 federal appellate · 35 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 Rase v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co. · Olson v. Great Northern Railway Co. · Lillstrom v. Northern Pacific Railroad · Orth v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. · Bruckman v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Plaintiff was not required to prove causal connection by direct evidence. If the circumstantial evidence was `something more than consistent' with plaintiff's theory, if it furnished a reasonable basis for the inference by the jury of the ultimate fact that the alleged negligence was the cause of the injury complained of, it is sufficient proof of the causal connection to sustain a verdict. Plaintiff was not bound to negative all possible circumstances which would excuse the defendant. Where a cause is shown that might produce a given accident, and the fact appears that an accident of that particular character did occur, it may be a warrantable inference, in absence of a showing of other causes, that the one known was the operative agency in bringing about the result. [Citing many cases.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Majerus v. Guelsow
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.