Austin v. Neiman’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1970
4 federal appellate · 14 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 Lehane v. Butte Electric Ry. Co. · Hollenback v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. · Mickuczauski v. Helmholz Mitten 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the face of evidence indisputably showing the method by which the shortage took- place, it is useless' to indulge a fanciful theory that it might have occurred in another and different way. In determining whether there is any evidence to sustain a finding, we must confine ourselves ‘within the field of evidence to'the utmost bounds' of reason which 'rational men of common sense might know without passing beyond the line between the field of probability and the field of conjecture.’ “While trial courts are allowed a wide latitude in determining the cred ibility of witnesses and the weight to be given to their testimony, this does not go to the extent of permitting the testimony as to a given fact to be allowed weight when the undisputed physical facts show that it is impossible for such testimony to be true.””
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.