Swift v. McMurray’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 1963
24 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 Oklahoma Producing & Refining Corp. of America v. Freeman · First Nat. Bank of Mounds v. Cox · Rider v. Morgan · Kingfisher Mill & Elev. Co. v. Westbrook · Petropole v. Jacobs
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is reversible error for the court, in its instructions, to invade the province of a jury, assume a controverted fact as proved or treat it as a question of law, and withhold the same from the determination of the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brogden v. Perryman““It is the duty of the trial court upon his own motion to properly instruct the jury upon the decisive issues formed by the pleadings and the evidence, and a failure to do so constitutes reversible error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McIntire v. Burns
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.